Ex-Imo Commissioner Jailed Three Years for Diversion of N180m

Justice K. A Lewanya of the Imo State High Court, Owerri, Imo State, on Tuesday, March 14, 2022, convicted and sentenced one Prince Laseberry Okafor Anyanwu, aka Laseberry Okafor, a former commissioner of Transport in the Rochas Okorocha administration of Imo State, to 3 years imprisonment on a four-count charge that bordered on abuse of office and fraudulent diversion of N180,000,000 (One Hundred and Eighty Million Naira only).

He diverted the said sum from the account of the Imo Transport Company to Oma Oil & Industries Ltd, a company in which he has interest through phony contracts.

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