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Pastor sentenced to 3 years in prison for stealing 56 transformers

According to reports, Pastor Eyo was said to have applied for 90electricity transformers and 4 generators from NDDC for Akwa Ibom State sometime in February, 2006.

Pastor in handcuffs

A Pastor who was a former Commissioner representing Akwa Ibom State on the board of the intervention agency, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Godwin Moffat Eyo was on Monday, convicted and sentenced to three years imprisonment by an Akwa Ibom State High court for stealing 56 transformers meant for oil producing communities in the state.

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Vanguard reports that the convict who was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a 56-count charge that borders on stealing and conversion of 56 electricity transformers released to him by NDDC for distribution to communities in Akwa Ibom state.

Pastor Eyo was found guilty on 37 of those counts by the presiding judge, Idongesit Ntem B. Isua and sentenced to three years imprisonment on each of the counts. He was however discharged and acquitted on 19 counts.

The sentences are to run concurrently.

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According to reports, the convict was said to have applied for 90 electricity transformers and 4 generators from NDDC for Akwa Ibom State sometime in February, 2006.

Approval was given for 70 (Seventy) transformers but he diverted same 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.

He thereafter sent only 14 Units to NDDC office in Uyo while he withheld 56 units which he could not account for till date.

It was gathered that the 56 transformers are valued at Two Hundred and Twenty million, One hundred and Seventy Six thousand, Three hundred and Twenty Naira (N220, 176, 320).

One of the count 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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