Benue Health Worker Jailed Three Years for Stealing N4.95m Drugs

Posted on: Sun 21-07-2013

A Magistrate’s Court judge, Mrs. Cecilia Bakare, yesterday sentenced a worker in the Benue State Ministry of Health, Mr. Sesugh Manasseh, to three years’ imprisonment without an option of fine for the theft of drugs belonging to the ministry worth N4,959,000.

Besides, the trial magistrate ordered that the convict should pay a fine of N5,000, adding that if he failed to pay the fine, he would bag another jail term.

Mrs. Bakare held that Manasseh stole the drugs, which he was employed to protect, thereby frustrating the efforts of the government to provide drugs to patients in hospitals.

The prosecution told the court that a worker in the ministry, one Mr. Terna Abuku, had reported to the police that some drugs in the store of the Central Medical Store, near the School of Nursing worth over N4 million were missing.

The prosecutor explained that during police investigation, the convict and Dennis Obaji, who received the drugs, were arrested.

Obaji, a chemist, pleaded not guilty to the charges.

The accused said he did not know that the drugs were stolen.

The matter adjourned till August 3 for further mention.

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