The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has arraigned one Mr. Popoona Samuel and Mr. Arama Davies Gyandi before a Federal High Court sitting in Yola, Adamawa State, over an alleged diversion of funds released by the World Bank for the rehabilitation of schools affected by insurgency within the State.
The accused persons were brought on Wednesday before Justice Tijjani G. Ringin on a four-count charge bordering on money laundering and retention/conversion of proceeds of an unlawful act.
According to the ICPC, in a statement on Friday, the duo of Samuel and Gyandi, while serving as officers under the State Education Investment Project in the Office of the Accountant General of Adamawa State in 2020, allegedly conspired to launder funds belonging to the School-Based Management Committees of primary schools in the state.
The defendants, however, pleaded not guilty to all charges when read to them.
In view of the ‘not guilty’ pleas entered by the defendants, counsel to the ICPC, Mr. T.S. Iorngee, applied to the court for a date for the commencement of trial.
“The case was thereafter adjourned to 22nd October 2025 for the commencement of the trial”, said the statement signed by the Director, Public Enlightenment and Education Spokesperson for the Commission, Demola Bakare.
