Military General Sentence To Seven Years Imprisonment By A Court-Martial
Military General Sentence To Seven Years Imprisonment By A Court-Martial Yesterday, the Special Army Court-martial in Abuja sentenced Maj Gen Umaru Mohammed, former Group Managing Director of Nigerian Army Properties Limited, to seven years for fraud. President of the Special Court Martial, Major General James Myam, read the sentences and ordered the convicted senior officer to refund the Nigerian Army the sum of $2,053,200 and N1,690,000. Mohammed was charged with eighteen counts of Stealing, forgery, misappropriation, and conspiracy. The sentences passed on him amounted to 49 years imprisonment, but the court announced that the sentences would run concurrently. As a result, the sentence was reduced to seven years. The army general pleaded not guilty to all the allegations, but the court found him guilty of 14 out of 18 charges. Despite being considered a wealthy army general, the judge described Umar Mohammed's crimes as "the most fearless case of fraud ever recorded in the