Court Sends Commission's Boss, Nine Others to Kuje Prison.

Byline: Ise-Oluwa Ige

A Federal high court sitting in Abuja yesterday issued an order remanding the Executive Secretary of the National Commission for Mass Literacy Adult and Non formal Education, Dr Dayo Olagunju in Kuje prisons.

Nine directors of the commission charged with Dr Olagunju for alleged complicity were also sent to prison.

That was after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) arraigned them yesterday for conspiring with one another to perpetrate fraud involving N278million in the commission.

The alleged crime was allegedly committed between November and December 2008.

The presiding high court judge, Justice Anwuli Chikere who remanded them in prison custody ordered that they should remain there till July 27, this year when all written addresses on their bail application would be adopted to enable her take a position on it.

The …