The Special Army Court-martial sitting in Abuja has sentenced former Group Managing Director, Nigerian Army Properties Limited, Maj Gen Umaru Mohammed, to seven years imprisonment for fraud.
The court found Mohammed guilty of 14 of the 18 count charges of stealing, forgery, misappropriation, and conspiracy.
The convicted senior officer was also ordered to refund the sum of $2,053,200 and N1,690,000 to the Nigerian Army.
The court-martial also indicted Mohammed for taking N74 million from the company’s account on August 22, 2019.
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The army authorities also alleged that the defendant directed one Maj Usman and one other now at large to collect money from ship owners in dollars.
He, however, pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Tuesday’s sentence was according to the approval of the Nigerian Army Council (NAC).
