A former Group Managing Director of Nigerian Army Properties Limited, Maj. Gen. Umaru Mohammed has been sentenced to seven years in prison by a Nigerian Army special court-martial sitting in Abuja.
Mohammed was found guilty on 14 counts bordering on forgery, misappropriation of funds, and conspiracy, among others.
The court martial ordered him to pay back $2,178,900 and N1.65bn to the Army properties and NAPL.
Although Mohammed pleaded not guilty to all the fourteen counts charge.
Delivering judgment on Tuesday, the eight-man panel, led by Maj. Gen. James Myam sentenced Mohammed to five years imprisonment on count one and ordered him to return a total sum of $1,045,400.000 to the Nigerian Army Properties Limited.
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He was also found guilty on count two, sentenced to five years’ imprisonment and ordered $480,000 to NAPL.
On count three, the General was also found guilty, sentenced to five years imprisonment and ordered to refund $85,400 to the NAPL.
He was similarly found guilty on counts four, five, six and nine, sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for each and ordered to refund $35,300, $55,500, $46,500 and $430,800, respectively.
The military court said the sentences would run concurrently and were subject to the confirmation of the authorities.
Moving an oral application, the counsel for the convicted ex-MDNAPL, Olalekan Ojo (SAN), citing Section 157 of the Armed Forces Act, prayed the court to move his client to a custodial centre.
He argued that the sentence of the court martial begins to run the day it is pronounced, pleading that the court move him to the correctional centre and not the Army detention facility.”
The court, however, turned down the application.
