The Anambra State Universal Basic Education Board (ASUBEB), has queried the headmistress of Community Primary School, Uruagu, in Nnewi local government area of the state, Mrs. Chinyere Madu, for not removing from the payroll the name of one of her teachers, Mrs. Agnes Uzoyibo Agbanusi, who is currently serving a six-month jail term for giving false information to the police.

It was gathered that the query followed an invitation to the head teacher by ASUBEB boss, Chief Nzemeka Olisa to the headquarters of the Board in Awka, to explain why she failed to inform the board that Agbanusi was convicted by the court, and that she has continued to receive her salary since the court sentenced her to a prison term of six months.

His Worship Obiora Obidike of Nnewi chief magistrate court, on May 8, 2015, convicted her on a two-count charge of conspiracy and giving false information to the police.

She was sentenced to three months jail term for conspiracy, and six months for giving false information to the police against an Nnewi-based businessman, Bertrand Onwuzo. The sentences are to run concurrently.

The ASUBEB boss, however, told our reporter that the head teacher explained that Agnes actually deceived her by claiming that she was hospitalised, and that she brought a doctor’s report as a proof of her hospitalisation.

Besides, she gave her name in the charge sheet No. NMC/23C/2010, as Mrs. Agnes Uzor Izuegbunam, instead of “Agbanusi”.

She had on September 10, 2009, written a petition to the Nnewi Police Area Command, wherein she alleged that one Mr. Bertrand Onwunzo, accompanied by six “hefty men whose faces looked strange, covering their faces with black spectacles, wearing black suites” stormed their residence at about 8.30pm on a mission to kidnap her husband, Mr. Benneth Izuegbunam.

Based on the petition, a team of policemen from the Nnewi Area Command, led by P. C. Nwokike, who wore mufti, had accosted Onwunzo at Nnewi magistrate court premises as he was coming out from the court after a proceeding in a dispute between him and Agnes’ husband, Benneth, and tried to arrest him, but he (Onwuzo) ran inside his lawyer’s car which zoomed off immediately.

The police later discovered that the school teacher lied against Onwuzo, and charged her to court, following which the court convicted her for giving false information to the police.

It was gathered that Agnes continued to receive her monthly salary as a public servant after her conviction, a development which prompted Onwuzo to petition the state commissioner for education, Professor Kate Omenugha, and also sent copies of the petition to ASUBEB chairman, the state commissioner of police.

and the director, state security service, SSS.

Agnes was convicted after the court was satisfied that contrary to her allegation, Onwunzo was not even in the country on September 1, when she alleged the accused stormed their house accompanied by a gang of six kidnappers to abduct her husband, a security guard attached to Nnewi magistrate Court,

The court established that Onwunzo travelled to Paris on August 20, 2009 with members of his family, and returned to the country on September 2, 2009.