A former Education Secretary of Bomadi Local Government Education Authority (LGEA), Mr. Abayomi Tom Kelekumor is to spend the next five years in jail for employing his daughter in the organization.
A Delta State High Court convicted Kelekumor for engaging Preye Tom as a messenger in the LGEA in 2003.
Mis Tom was a Senior Secondary 2 student at that time .Spokesperson for the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Mrs. Rasheedat A. Okoduwa said in a statement that the court gave the convict no option of fine.
Okoduwa said: “the convict was sentenced by Justice Briki Okolosi for violating Section 19 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000, by using his position to confer unfair advantage upon his relation. The offence is also punishable under the same section.
“The Commission, in a one-count charge, the convict gave employment to his daughter, who was then a Senior Secondary Two (SS2) student, into the local government service, knowing full well that she was at the same time a full-time student.”
Miss Tom was employed as a Messenger on Salary Grade Level 02 by her father, in July 2003, while she was still a student of Tamigbe Grammar School, Toru-Tamigbe, Burutu Local Government Area, Delta State.
The charge sheet against the convict read: “Abayomi Tom Kelekumor, while being a public officer to wit: Education Secretary in Bomadi Local Government Council of Delta State in the month of July, 2003 or thereabout did confer unfair advantage upon his daughter, Miss Tom Preye when he employed her as a Messenger on Grade Level 02 while she was still a student of Tamigbe Grammar School, Toru-Tamigbe, Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State.”
The judge ruled that the convict will serve his terms without any option of fine in accordance with the ICPC Act.”