Justice C. O Ogisi of Delta State High
Court, Sapele, on Wednesday February 25,
2015 convicted and sentenced a former
Deputy Comptroller in charge of Ogwashi-
Uku Prison in Delta State, DCP Diete Wure
Wisdom and a Senior Inspector of Prison,
Ayamede Peter to three years
imprisonment for stealing 27, 200 litres of
automotive gas oil stored in exhibit trucks,
left in the custody of the prison.
They were prosecuted on a 4-count charge by
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,
EFCC, on the strength of evidence that the duo
conspired to sell products in three exhibits
trucks: Mack tanker with registration number XD
605 JJT and Man Diesel Lorries with registration
numbers, XD 789 ENU and XD 620 FGG, filled
with AGO.
The petitioner had alleged said that after the
sale of the products, the drums and the tankers
were refilled with water on the directives of DCP
Diete.
Upon their arraignment on November 1, 2013,
the convicts had pleaded not guilty to all the
charges. One of the counts read, “That you
Wisdom Wure Diete and Peter Ayamede while
being a Deputy Comptroller of Prisons in charge
of Ogwashi-Uku prison and a Senior Inspector of
Prison respectively on or about April 2012 at
Ogwashi-Uku Judicial Division did steal 27,200
litres of Automotive Gas Oil (AGO) being the
content of the 134 (One Hundred and Thirty
Four) drums of 200 litres each loaded in a truck
with registration number: XN 789 ENU, valued at
about N4, 02,000.00 property of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria kept for safe keeping with
the Nigerian Prison Service Ogwashi-Uku which
you were in charge and thereby committed an
offence contrary to section 390 and punishable
under Section 390 (5)(8)(b) & (9) of the
Criminal Code Law CAP C21 Laws of Delta
State of Nigeria 2006”.
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