Abubakar Mohammed Aseku, an Assistant Superintendent with the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), has been accused of receiving N17.6 million in salaries from two other government agencies while serving in the NIS.

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) arraigned Aseku on Tuesday before Justice Binta Dogonyaro of the High Court in Apo, Abuja.

Aseku is facing a nine-count charge around the abuse of office and corruption.

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Aseku was said to have received N4.2 million in salaries from the Nasarawa State Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology in 2015 while working as a school teacher. This is even though he was in active employment with the immigration service.

Between 2018 and 2019, he also got N13.4 million in salaries from the Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR).

“In addition, Mr Aseku, as a Pay Officer with the NIS, allegedly facilitated the payment of N4.7 million in salaries to seven individuals who were neither employees of the NIS nor on its payroll,” the ICPC stated on Wednesday.

One of the charges against Aseku reads: “That you, Abubakar Mohammed Aseku, between October 2018 and October 2019, in Abuja, while serving as an Assistant Superintendent Immigration Officer, used your position to confer corrupt advantage upon yourself by receiving a total sum of N13,400,889.90 in salaries from the Department of Petroleum Resources, while concurrently employed by the Nigerian Immigration Service, thereby committing an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 19 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act, 2000.”

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He pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him.

Justice Dogonyaro upheld Aseku’s existing bail conditions as granted by an FCT High Court in Maitama, and his case was adjourned until April 29 for further hearing.