Four young men, Adegbola Kazeem Aina (a.k.a Marry Linson),
Babarinde Jacob (a.k.a Rhonda Luna), Sokoya Oluwaseyi and Mufutau Yusuf Akorede,
have been convicted for posing as ladies to defraud unsuspecting foreigners.
The convicts were also accused and sentenced for sending of
pornographic and indecent pictures.
They were arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, Ibadan Zonal Office.
They were each convicted of one-court charge bordering on
impersonation and sending of pornographic and indecent pictures.
The trio of Adegbola, Babarinde and Sokoya were tried by Hon.
Justice Watilat Ibrahim of the Federal High Court 2, Abeokuta, Ogun State, who
found them guilty of their individual offences, convicted and sentenced them to
prison.
But Mufutau’s conviction was pronounced by Hon. Justice S. M.
Abubakar of the Federal High Court 1, Abeokuta, Ogun State. The judge held that
the prosecution proved the case against him beyond every reasonable doubt.
The first, second and third convicts were initially arraigned
on December 10, 2018, while the fourth convict was arraigned on December 11,
2018. They, however, opted to plead guilty to the charges preferred against them.
Justice Ibrahim convicted and sentenced Adegbola to five
months imprisonment with effect from the date of his arrest, and also ordered
that he should restitute through the Federal Republic of Nigeria to his
victims, the sum of $1, 080 US Dollars, phone and laptop being proceeds from
his fraudulent acts.
Babarinde was convicted and sentenced to four months
imprisonment, also with effect from the date of his arrest, and shall forfeit
and restitute the sum of $250 US Dollars and his iphone 7 to the Federal
Government of Nigeria, being part of the proceeds derived from his fraudulent
acts.
Sokoya, however, bagged four months imprisonment starting
from the date of his arrest.
After declaring him guilty as charged, Justice Abubarka
consequently convicted and sentenced Mufutau to four months imprisonment,
ordering that he forfeit his phone and $140 US Dollars to the Federal
Government, being proceeds of his crime.
In another development the EFCC, Maiduguri Zonal Office, has
secured the conviction of Imam Malik Kalle before Justice Fadawu Umaru of the
Borno State High Court, sitting in Maiduguri on a one-count charge bordering on
cheating to the tune of N 1,5 00, 000.
Kalle, a former staff of Jaiz Bank Plc, Maiduguri branch was
alleged to have defrauded one Muhammad Sani Abubakar, by fraudulently
collecting the sum of N1, 500, 000 for a purported Mudaraba Investment with
Jaiz Bank Plc.
Count one of the charge reads: “That you, Imama Malik, a
former staff of Jaiz Bank Plc, sometimes in November 2016, in Maiduguri, Borno
State, within the Jurisdiction of this Honourable Court with intent to defraud,
did obtain the sum of N1,500,000 from Muhammad Sani Abubakar, a customer of
Jaiz Bank, under the false pretence that the said money will be used to service
his interest in Mudaraba Investment, which pretence you knew to be false and
thereby committed an offence contrary to section 320(a) of the Borno State
Penal Code Laws cap, 102 and punishable under section 322 of the same law.”
He pleaded "guilty" to the charge preferred against
him.
Counsel for the prosecution, Halima Alhaji Shehu, prayed the
court to convict and sentence him as charged.
The Judge thereafter, adjourned the matter was adjourned to
March 18, 2019 for sentence and ordered the convict to be remanded in prison.
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