Thursday, November 13, 2025 - A dismissed exhibit keeper of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is currently standing trial over allegations of criminal breach of trust involving exhibits in his custody.
The former staff, identified as Polycarp Andrew, who worked
at the EFCC’s Kaduna Zonal Directorate, is accused of stealing foreign currency
and naira exhibits totalling about $11,900.
Sources privy to the matter said Andrew fled after
allegedly committing the theft and was later arrested in Taraba State.
According to the charge sheet sighted by our
correspondent on Thursday, the EFCC preferred six charges against Andrew.
One of the charges states that Andrew, while serving
as exhibit keeper between January 26 and October 11, 2023, was entrusted with
$11,900 (about N10.9m) but allegedly committed criminal breach of trust.
The offences are said to be punishable under Section
300 of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law, 2017.
Count three reads:”That you, Andrew Polycarp, being a
public servant (Exhibit Keeper) in the employment of the EFCC, Kaduna Zonal
Directorate between October 6, 2023, and July 27, 2024, in Kaduna within the
Judicial Division of the High Court of Kaduna State, and in such capacity
entrusted with the sum of $3,800, equivalent to N5,989,900, for safe keeping,
did commit criminal breach of trust in respect of the said sum of money, an
offence punishable under Section 300 of Kaduna State Penal Code Law, 2017.”
Another count reads: “That you, Andrew Polycarp, being
a public servant (Exhibit Keeper) in the employment of the EFCC, Kaduna Zonal
Directorate, between January 15 and June 14, 2024, in Kaduna within the
Judicial Division of the High Court of Kaduna State, and in such capacity
entrusted with the sum of $2,800, equivalent to N3,800,000, for safe keeping,
did commit criminal breach of trust in respect of the said sum of money, an
offence punishable under Section 300 of Kaduna State Penal Code Law, 2017.”
Our correspondent gathered that the trial on the
matter will commence at the Kaduna State High Court on December 11, 2025.
In 2024, the EFCC dismissed 27 officers. According to
a statement by the commission’s spokesman, Dele Oyewale, in January 2025, the
dismissals were based on the recommendations of the EFCC’s Staff Disciplinary
Committee and approved by the Executive Chairman, Ola Olukoyede.
Oyewale said the action was part of the commission’s zero-tolerance policy for corruption. The officers were dismissed for various offences, including fraudulent activities and misconduct.
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