An AkwaIbom State High Court has sentenced
Pastor Godwin Moffat (pictured above), a
former NDDC Commissioner representing
Akwa Ibom State, to three years imprisonment
for stealing 56 transformers worth N220, 176,
320 which was meant for oil producing
communities in the state.
In a 56 count charge filed in court by the
EFCC, Pastor Moffat 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 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.
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 14thApril, 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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