He was sentenced to jail by Justice Haruna Mshellia of Borno state High Court, and was the General Manager of the state-owned Maiduguri Flour Mills Limited, where he committed the fraud.
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) charged him on a six-count bordering on abuse of office and conferring undue advantage of himself.
The charge sheet showed that Arfo, while acting as the General Manager of the Flour Mill, between 2014 and 2020, engaged in multiple fraud in violation of Sections 12 and 19 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000 and punishable under relevant Sections of the same Act.
ICPC disclosed that one of the country on which he was convicted revealed that he awarded multiple contracts to Falkwat Multilinks Limited, a private company where he was a director, to supply diesel (Automotive Gas Oil) and maize to Maiduguri Flour Mills.
Counsel to ICPC, Anas Mohammed Kolo, while arguing the case, informed the court that the convict in 2015, awarded a N4.9 million contract to Falkwat Multilinks Limited, to supply maize to Maiduguri Flour Mills Limited.
He also told the court that Arfo, while serving as a public servant, awarded several contracts between 2016 and 2017 to his private company, Falkwat Multilinks Limited, to supply maize to Maiduguri Flour Mills Limited.
For instance, Arfo authorized the payments of N42.1 million to his company in July 2016 for the supply of 386.45 metric tonnes of maize and another N23 million to the same company in March, 2016 to supply 306.94 metric tonnes of maize to the state-owned flour mills.
Arfo was convicted r9 yet another offence when he approved the payment of N16 million to Falkwat Multilinks to supply 217.45 metric tonnes of maize.
Justice Mshellia, at the end of the trail found Arfo guilty of four counts out of six preferred against him by ICPC, and sentenced him to seven years imprisonment in each count.
He ruled that the prison terms will run concurrently.
Source: www.clintonsdaily.com
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