ICPC
Age Falsification:
ICPC
Age Falsification: ICPC Arraigns Ex-Border Agency
Boss
A former Acting Executive Secretary of the Border Communities
Development Agency (BCDA), Mrs. Victoria Olutayo Odumosu, has been
arraigned by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related
Offences Commission (ICPC) for age falsification.
Mrs. Odumosu was arraigned before Justice Olasumbo O. Goodluck
of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Maitama
on a five-count charge bordering on conferring corrupt advantage
upon herself as a public officer in order to keep herself in public
service beyond the statutory retirement age.
She was alleged to have changed her date of birth on the
agency’s nominal roll from 6th July, 1956 to 6th July, 1960, when
she was made the head of Human Resources Department of the agency,
contrary to Section 19 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related
Offences Act, 2000.
This fact was unearthed by ICPC after it launched an
investigation into allegations contained in a petition it had
received against the accused person.
Mrs. Odumosu pleaded not guilty to all the charges preferred
against her when they were read out to her.
Counsel to the accused person, Sayo J. Odumosu, through a
written application, sought the relief of the court to grant his
client bail.
Justice Goodluck then adjourned the case to Friday 19th October,
2018 for bail hearing, while the suspect has been remanded in ICPC
custody.
Mrs. Rasheedat A. Okoduwa, ,mni
Spokesperson for the Commission