Aladini Johnny (Left) and Hellen Itemba |
Justice
Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court, Asaba has sentenced the duo of
Helen Itemba and Aladini Johnny Money to three years imprisonment for
offences bordering on conspiracy and illegal dealing in Petroleum
products.
The
convict who were prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, were found guilty of the two count charge preferred against
them and convicted accordingly. The court sentenced them to a three-year
jail term on each count with an option of three hundred thousand naira
(N300, 000) fine.
The
two accused persons illegally conveyed one hundred and thirty six
plastic drums of petroleum products in a truck with registration number
XN 789 EGU at Egbidi, Isoko Local Government Area of Delta State in 2009
without a license and thereby committed an offence contrary to section
3(6) of the Miscellaneous Offences Act Cap. M17, laws of the Federation
of Nigeria, 2007 and punishable under section 1(17) of the same act.
Helen
Itemba and Aladini Johnny Money were arrested in May, 2009 by
operatives of the Delta State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil
Defence Corps (NSCDC), along with a truck containing one hundred and
thirty six plastic drums of petroleum products driven by one John Ufo
and his co-travellers: Emmanuel Itemba, Oluchukwu Olomu, and Okwuosa
Onyedika. They were handed over to the EFCC for investigation and prosecution.
One of the charge that sent them to jail reads: “that you Helen Itemba, Aladini Money, and others at large on or about the 4th
May, 2009 at Bomadi Water side, Bomadi in Delta State within the
Jurisdiction of this Honorable Court did conspire with one another to
commit felony wit dealing in petroleum products contrary to section 3(6)
of the miscellaneous offences Act CAP, Laws of the Federation of
Nigeria 2007 and punishable under section 1(17) of the same Act”.
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