Nigerian officials jailed for selling food aid

Two Nigerian officials have been jailed for selling food aid meant for people fleeing militant attacks and facing food shortages in the country's North-East. 
 
The two, Umar Ibrahim and Ali Zangebe sold 180 bags of rice donated by an international aid agency.
 
They were jailed for two years and fined one million naira equivalent to three thousand 200 dollars each. 
 
More than two million people have been displaced in North-Eastern Nigeria where security forces are battling Islamist militant group Boko Haram. 

The prosecution of the two officials was brought by Nigeria's anti-corruption agency, the EFCC.  Umar Ibrahim, a local councillor, and Ali Zangebe, a member of a camp feeding committee, are said to be the first convicted for corruption in relation to food aid in Nigeria since the insurgency began in 2009.
 
The two admitted the charges against them but told the court that the rice was about to expire.

SOURCE: BBC NEWS