Emmanuel
Sunday alias Umoh Sunday Iyang, Iyang Samuel Chukwudi, has
been sentenced to seven and half years imprisonment without option of fine for
o btaining money under false pretence.
The convict was arraigned by the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on March 19, 2014 on an 8-count charge
bordering on obtaining money by false pretence. He pleaded not guilty to the
count charge.
He was arraigned before Justice P.I.
Ajoku of the Federal High Court, Benin, Edo State and was sentenced today.
After diligent prosecution, Justice Ajoku found him
guilty on the 5-count amended charge and sentenced him to thirty months
imprisonment each of the counts. The court also ordered that the convict
forfeit his two (2) phones to the Federal Government.
The journey to prison for Emmanuel started when he was
arrested in Benin on August 13, 2013 by the Nigerian Army, 4 Brigade/sector 1, Operation
Pulo Shield, for posing as an Army Captain to defraud one Igue Endurance of
the sum of N1, 545,000.00 (One Million Five Hundred And Forty- Five Thousand
Naira) in the pretext that the said amount be used to facilitate her
recruitment into the Nigerian Army.
One of the charges read, “That you Emmanuel Sunday (
also known as Umoh Sunday, Inyang Samuel Chukwudi) on or about May, 2013, at
Benin within the Jurisdiction of this honourable court, with intent to defraud
did represent yourself to be a captain with the Nigerian Army and obtained the
sum of Three Hundred Thousand Naira only(300,000.00) from one Igue Endurance,
which said money you used part of it and paid the sum of Eighty Thousand Naira
into your Diamond bank plc, account 0001857059, under the pretence that the
said sum would be used to get Igue Endurance recruited into Nigerian Army, a
pretext which you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to
section 1(1) (a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act 2006
and punishable under section 1(3) of the same Act”.
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