The Acting Provost of the Federal College of Education (Technical) Gusau, Zamfara State, Dr. Bello Shallah Ahmed had received a five-year jail term without option from a Zamfara State High Court of justice sitting in Gusau for allegedly collecting double Duty Tour Allowance for an official trip to Abuja for a board meeting of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) while equally collecting an equal amount as DTA from JAMB, including sitting allowances, all totaling N385,000.00.
According to the tenets of the Independent Corrupt Practices And Other Related Offences Commission ( ICPC), such abuse is punishable under Section 19 of the ICPC Act 2000 which maintains that, “Any public officer who uses his office or position to gratify or confer any corrupt or unfair advantage upon himself or associate of the public officer or any public officer shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be liable to imprisonment for five years without option of fine.”
An eight count charge was brought against Shallah in the court on Monday, October 13, 2014, which states, “That you Bello Muhammad Shallah(m) sometime between the 13th and 16th of November, 2006 or there about at the Federal College Of Education (Technical)Gusau, Zamfara State being a public officer, then serving as the Acting Provost of the said institute used your position as the Acting Provost to confer unfair advantage upon yourself by collecting the sum of N75,000 as DTA, fueling, servicing and others for an official trip to Abuja to attend JAMB Board Meeting from the said Federal College Of Education, Gusau while at the same period and for the same purpose you collected the sum of N90,000 Air ticket and sitting allowance(as a JAMB Board Member) from the JAMB and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under section 19 of the ICPC Act, 2000.”
The presiding judge, Justice Amaize said he was not swayed by the plea of Allocutus because the accused lack integrity.
