Due to job fraud, the NSCDC commander receives a five-year prison sentence.

Christopher Oluchukwu, a commandant in the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps, was found guilty by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offenses Commission of scamming people looking to place their children in jobs.

In Katsina State High Court 3, Oluchukwu was found guilty on all nine counts against him, according to a statement published on the ICPC website on Thursday.

The charges were based on claims that he took N900,000 in total from three different people while pretending to be able to get them jobs at the NSCDC.

The statement said, in part, that the prisoner in the ICPC case at Katsina State High Court 3 was accused of receiving N200,000:00, N300,000:00, and N400,000:00, respectively, from three people using the NSCDC as a cover to get jobs for their kids.

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"That on or about the 25th and 28th day of November 2014 within the jurisdiction of this Court, as a public officer with the NSCDC, you Christopher Oluchukwu Ugwubujo conferred a corrupt advantage upon yourself by obtaining a total sum of four hundred thousand naira (N400, 000. 00) from one for a job placement for her daughter into the NSCDC and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 19 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act 2000." according to one of the counts.

It was reported that Justice Abbas Bawale ruled Oluchukwu guilty on all nine counts in his verdict on Tuesday imposed a five-year prison term on him without the possibility of a fine.

Likewise, the trial judge declared that the convicts would serve their terms simultaneously. The statement said, "He further held that his sureties should be arrested and kept in custody for further inquiry, even though the defendant was at large (he jumped bail).

Abdul-Rahman Ibrahim, a man in his fifties, was detained by the Nigeria Customs Service in January, according to a report published by PUNCH Online. Ibrahim was involved in fraudulent operations and had assumed the identity of the Comptroller-General of Customs and other senior government officials.

According to reports, the suspect deceitfully enticed a number of gullible persons to give him money in exchange for the issuing of "job appointment letters," extorting more than N1 million from them.