Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

Consultant Bags Two Years for N65.5m Pension Fraud

Justice Darius Khobo of a Kaduna State High Court has convicted and sentenced one Mohammed Ibrahim Sodangi, a pension consultant, to four months in prison for an alleged N65.5 million fraud. Sodangi's road to jail began when the Commission received a petition by a group, Movement for Better Future, which alleged massive fraud in the Kaduna State Pension Bureau. It was alleged that the then management of the Bureau conspired with the consultant to steal pension fund through enrolment of ghost pensioners. The defendant was arraigned on May 15, 2015 on a 13-count charge bordering on impersonating…