Church’s Accountant Sentenced To 18 Years In Prison For Stealing Tithe And Offering
The accountant of the Church of Brethren in Nigeria, Ibrahim Aku has been sentenced to 18 years in jail for fraud.
Aku defrauded the church of N15.5 million (money gotten from offerings, donations and tithes) between 2016 and 2018. The convict who pleaded responsible to fees of forgery and obtaining money by false pretense, became sentenced to 18 years in jail with out an choice of fine.
The former Church accountant who turned into busted after presenting forged tellers as evidence of price of money entrusted in his care, become ordered to pay lower back the money as restitution to the church with the aid of a Federal High Court choose who additionally directed the anti-graft corporation to promote the proceeds of the crime recovered throughout its investigation and remit the money to the church.
