Military Court Demotes Major-General Over Fraud

Ibrahim Sani, a Major General and former Chief of Transformation and Innovation Centre of the Nigerian Army has been demoted to the rank of a Brigadier-General.

He was demoted by a Military Special Court Martial on Thursday following a five-count charge allegation bordering on cheating.

Presiding over the Mogadishu Cantonment, Asokoro, Abuja, the president of the court, James Gbum, an Air Vice Marshal, ordered Sani to return N23 million being the money he got after he sold the part of the army land to himself.

The court held that the convict fraudulently allocated to himself part of the land – 436 hectares, in Abuja and sold it.

The court president also held that Sani went beyond the mandate given to him by the army authorities which was “only to collect the Certificate of Occupancy (C of O)’’ from relevant FCT Agency.

He said the convict divided the land into two and allocated one part to himself, using a pseudo company in which he was the sole signatory.

The convict further sold portions of the land to three different people at N10 million, N7 million and N6 million, respectively.

The court president, however, said the conviction and sentence was subject to the confirmation of the Army Council.