Justice Z. B Abubakar of the Federal High Court, Kaduna, on Wednesday gave a funny -kid-glove treatment to one Abdulkadir Mohammed Salihu, a former sales assistant of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Kaduna Depot , a N1 million fine or a three-year jail term after a proven theft of over N6billion from the NNPC.
According to source,the EFCC arrested Salihu on 29 October last year after several petitions against him were submitted to the Kaduna Zonal office of the EFCC.. Before his arrest, he was in charge of loading manifest at the Kaduna Depot of the NNPC.
Upon investigation, the EFCC discovered that Salihu conspired with some unidentified oil marketers to lift petroleum products without payment to the NNPC at the depot.The theft was estimated at over N6 billion.
Investigation further revealed that he was part of the cartel behind multiple loading of petroleum products, without corresponding payments. He committed the fraud between 2009 to 2017 at Kaduna Depot
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