Channels Television
Updated April 1, 2021
The Permanent Secretary in the Benue State Ministry of Health, Ayaka Apir Ityu paraded by the EFCC in Benue on April 1, 2021. Credit: EFCC.
The Permanent Secretary in the Benue State Ministry of Health, Ayaka Apir Ityu has been arraigned before Justice A. I. Ityonyiman of the State High Court Makurdi.
He was arraigned by the Makurdi Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a one-count charge of forgery, a statement issued on Thursday by the anti-graft agency’s spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, disclosed.
The charge reads: “That you, Ayaka Apir Ityu, while holding the office of Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health, Makurdi, Benue State, sometime on the 23rd of December, 2019, in Makurdi, within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, did dishonestly make a false document titled: PROPOSAL TO CARRY OUT MAINTENANCE, REPAIRS AND LOGISTIC SERVICES, dated 23rd December, 2019 on the letter head paper of DE