The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, has secured the conviction of Mr Dare Adebowale Oladapo, a former Deputy Director at the Kwara State Directorate of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, for falsifying his age and fraudulently receiving salaries and allowances for four months after his due retirement from service.

The conviction was delivered by Honourable Justice Ibrahim Yusuf of the Kwara State High Court, Ilorin, on Tuesday, October 7, 2025, under Charge No. KWS/64C/2022.

The case originated from a petition submitted to the ICPC by Ilorin-based legal practitioner F. F. Ikebundu, Esq., of Ayo Ajomole & Co.

Investigations by the Commission revealed that the defendant falsified his date of birth to unlawfully extend his years of service, thereby conferring an undue advantage upon himself.

Prosecuting counsels to the ICPC, Kalu Ugbo and Zainab Moshood, informed the court that the defendant’s fraudulent actions led to the receipt of unearned salaries and allowances amounting to N1,233,258.95 between 2019 and 2020.

Specifically, Count One, relating to the defendant’s corrupt act of altering his date of birth at the National Population Commission to prolong his years of service in the public sector, constitutes an offence contrary to Section 25(1)(a) and punishable under Section 25(1)(b) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act 2000.

Count Two similarly charged the defendant with contravening Section 25(1)(a), punishable under Section 25(1)(b) of the same Act.

The charge detailed that the defendant made a false statement on oath in an affidavit dated February 15, 2012, in which he maintained a falsified date of birth, November 11, 1964, instead of November 11, 1959 and used it to alter his official records at the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development since joining the service in 1997.

Count Three read: “That you, Dare Adebowale Oladapo, on or about the months of December 2019 to April 2020 at Ilorin, Kwara State, as Deputy Director in the service of the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, used your said office to confer unfair advantage upon yourself in the sum of N1,233,258.95k (one million, two hundred and thirty-three thousand, two hundred and fifty-eight naira, ninety-five kobo), being salaries and allowances earned by you from December 2019 to April 2020 when you ought to have retired from the public service but manipulated your record to extend your service years, and you thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 19 of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act 2000.”

After a thorough trial, Justice Yusuf found Mr Oladapo guilty on counts One and Two for making a false statement and conferring a corrupt advantage upon himself, in violation of Section 25(1)(a) and punishable under Section 25(1)(b) of the Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Act 2000.

However, the court discharged and acquitted him on Count Three.

Consequently, the court sentenced the defendant to two years’ imprisonment, with an option of a N100,000 fine on each of the two counts.

In addition, the court ordered him to refund the total sum of N1,233,258.95 to the Federal Government, representing the salaries and allowances he unlawfully received during the four months he overstayed in service.

Following the judgment, the convict promptly paid the N200,000 fine for counts One and Two and refunded the full sum of N1,233,258.95 into the ICPC Recovery Account as directed by the court.