The former Commissioner representing Akwa Ibom
State in the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Pastor Godwin
Moffat, is to spend the next three years in prison for stealing 56
transformers worth a whopping N220 million, meant for distribution to
oil producing communities in the state.
Pastor Moffat was dragged to an AkwaIbom State High Court on a 56 count charge bordering on stealing, conversion and misappropriation of funds, by the Economic and Financial Crimes (EFCC), and he was duly sentenced.
In
its evidence in chief, the anti-graft body said Moffat had applied for
90 electricity transformers and 4 generators from NDDC for Akwa Ibom
State sometime in February, 2006 and the body approved 70 transformers
but he diverted 56 of them to his house in Eket on the pretext that
there was no space to accommodate the newly issued 70 units of
transformers at the NDDC office in Uyo.
Afterwards,
he sent only 14 Units of the transformers to the NDDC office in Uyo
leaving a balance of 56 units which he could not account for till date.
One of the counts preferred against Pastor Moffat reads:
"That
you Pastor Godwin Moffat Eyo, being a former Akwa Ibom State
representative on the Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission
(NDDC), on or about 14th April, 2006, at Uyo in the Uyo Judicial
Division, did fraudulently steal a 300 KVA/33/0.415 Transformer Serial
No. 1712496 valued at Four Million, Eighteen Thousand, Five Hundred and
Sixty Naira (N4,018,560.00), property of NDDC and thereby committed an
offence of stealing contrary to Section 399 and punishable under Section
404 of the Criminal Code Cap. 38, Volume 2, Laws of Akwa Ibom State,
2000."
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