The Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Gombe zonal office on January 8, 2019
secured the conviction of one Sule Raymond for a one-count charge bordering on
cheating.
Raymond was
arraigned before Justice Sa'ad Muhammad of the Gombe State High Court for
defrauding Daniel Solomon, a farmer of N155, 000 (One Hundred and Fifty Five
Thousand Naira) only in the guise that he would help his son gain employment
into the Nigerian Army.
His journey
to jail began in August 2017, when after collecting the said money, he deceived
Solomon’s son to travel to Kaduna to meet the “officer-in-charge” of the
recruitment in Zaria. After spending three days at Zaria, the son realized that
the phone number given to him by Raymond actually belonged to him and not that
of the expected recruitment officer.
The charge
reads: “That you, SULE RAYMOND, sometimes in August 2017 at Gombe Local
Government Area of Gombe State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable
Court, did dishonestly induce one Daniel Solomon, a farmer to deliver to you
monies, the sum of N155,000 (One Hundred and Fifty-Five Thousand Naira) only in
the belief that the said sum was for facilitating employment into the Nigerian
Army, thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 320 (a) and Punishable
under Section 322 of the Penal Code Laws, CAP 89, Laws of Northern Nigeria”.
In view of
the weight of evidence brought against him, he did not waste the time of the
court as he pleaded “guilty” to the charge.
The
prosecuting counsel, Ndeh Godspower, urged the court to “convict him and
sentence him according to the Law he was charged with”.
Defence
counsel, however, pleaded with the court to “temper justice with mercy”.
Justice
Muhammad, thereafter, convicted and sentenced him to three months in prison,
with an option of N40, 000. The trial judge also ordered that the money in
question be recovered from him and returned to his victim.
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