Four civil servants in detention for withdrawing late worker’s money

The Police Command in Bauchi State has apprehended four suspected criminals over alleged forgery and fraud.

The spokesperson of the police in the state, SP Ahmed Mohammed Wakil, confirmed the incident via a press statement released to newsmen in Bauchi.

He narrated that “on 06/09/2022, at about 4:30pm, one Samira Jibrin, female, who happens to be a next of kin to Jibrin Adamu, male of Zalanga, Ganjuwa LGA, who was a worker with Bauchi State Ministry of Finance until his death on 02/12/2021, reported that she went to the Bauchi Ministry of Finance to facilitate the benefits of her father but on getting there, was told that her father’s benefit had been facilitated and withdrawn with the use of forged documents by some persons.”

Report has it that on receiving information of the case, the detective attached to A’ Divisional Police Headquarters intervened and went on to carry out a preliminary investigation which exposed “one Nasiru Samaila ‘m’, aged 48yrs, who’s a staff of Bauchi State Ministry of Finance.

Nasiru was reported to have conspired with three others, who are Auwal Jibrin ‘m’, aged 27yrs of the ministry of finance Tijjani Mohammad male, aged 27yrs of state low-cost Bauchi.”

The press release also narrated that, “Faruq Mohammad Nasiru male aged 19yrs, an IT student from ATAB Abubakar Tatari Polytechnic attached to the Ministry of Finance on industrial attachment selfishly and mercilessly forged documents and accessed the sum of three hundred and thirty-two thousand N332,000 naira belonging to the deceased and converted it to their personal use, shared the benefit among themselves.”

It was gathered that the said Nasiru Samaila who made use of his 17 years experience with the ministry and masterminded the dubious idea of forging documents to receive the deceased’s entitlement at the expense of the next of kin who deserve it, received the sum of two hundred and twelve thousand naira N212,000.00.

Investigation revealed that all the suspected fraudsters confessed to playing an active role in the commission of the crime.

Auwal Jibril, one of the suspects, who is also a serving member of the said ministry, received the sum of one hundred thousand nairas (N100,000.00) as a share of his contribution to the financial crime.

Tijjani Mohammed, an operator of cybercafé, and Faruq Mohammed an IT student from Abubakar Tatari Ali Polytechnic attached to the Ministry of Finance, got up to the sum of twenty thousand naira (N20,000.00) respectively.

Report has it that the sum of three hundred and twenty thousand naira N320,000.00 has been recovered from the suspected fraudsters.

The Commissioner of Police has ordered that the case be charged to court.