Ex-NDDC Commissioner Jailed
Three Years for Stealing
Transformers

former Commissioner representing Akwa Ibom
State on the board of the intervention agency, Niger
Delta Development Commission, NDDC, Pastor
Godwin Moffat Eyo was today convicted and
sentenced to three years imprisonment by an Akwa Ibom
State High court for stealing 56 transformers meant for oil
producing communities in the state.

The convict who was prosecuted by the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a 56-count charge
that borders on stealing and conversion of 56 electricity
transformers released to him by NDDC for distribution to
communities in Akwa Ibom state, was found guilty on 37 of
those counts by Justice Idongesit Ntem B. Isua and
sentenced to three years imprisonment on each of the
counts. He was however discharged and acquitted on 19
counts. The sentences are to run concurrently.
The convict was said to have applied for 90 (Ninety)
electricity transformers and 4 generators from NDDC for
Akwa Ibom State sometime in February, 2006. Approval
was given for 70 (Seventy) transformers but he diverted
same to his house in Eket on the pretext that there was no
space to accommodate the newly issued 70 units of
transformers at the NDDC office in Uyo. He thereafter sent
only 14 Units to NDDC office in Uyo while he withheld 56
units which he could not account for till date.
The 56 transformers are valued at Two Hundred and
Twenty million, One hundred and Seventy Six thousand,
Three hundred and Twenty Naira (N220, 176, 320).
One of the count reads, “That you Pastor Godwin Moffat
Eyo being a former Akwa Ibom State representative on the
Board of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC)
on or about 14thApril, 2006 at Uyo in the Uyo Judicial
Division did fraudulently steal a 300 KVA/33/0.415
Transformer Serial No. 1712496 valued at Four Million,
Eighteen Thousand, Five Hundred and Sixty Naira
(N4,018,560.00), property of NDDC and thereby committed
an offence of stealing contrary to Section 399 and
punishable under Section 404 of the Criminal Code Cap. 38,
Volume 2, Laws of Akwa Ibom State, 2000”.
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Stealing is now corruption

No one is even condemnIng this act, stealing is now a normal thing in society