Justice Musa Mustapha of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri on Wednesday, July 20, 2022, convicted and sentenced one Tijjani Mohammed Bulama to six month imprisonment on a one count amended charge of criminal misappropriation.
Bulama, a Point of Sale, POS operator, was prosecuted by the Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, following his investigation for criminally diverting a sum of N1.5m which a customer had asked him to transfer to another recipient. The defendant pleaded ‘guilty’ to the amended charge.
In another development, the Maiduguri Zonal Command on Wednesday, July 20, 2022, arraigned ex- soldier, Sgt. Ado Kabiru before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri on one count charge of obtaining N29, 934,500.00 (Twenty Nine Million Nine Hundred and Thirty Four Thousand Five Hundred Naira) by false pretence.
Also, the Ilorin Zonal Command of the EFCC has secured the conviction of one Abdulrahman Kayode Wasiu for offences bordering on cybercrime and retention of proceeds of unlawful activities.
Justice Adenike Akinpelu of the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin sentenced the defendant to six months imprisonment, having found him guilty of the one-count charge brought against him by the EFCC.
Abdulrahman between November 2020 and November 2021, allegedly had in his possession a sum of N4, 326, 000 (Four Million, Three Hundred and Twenty Six Thousand Naira) only suspected to be proceed of unlawful activities.
The defendant pleaded guilty when the charge was read to him.
Similarly, Justice Efe Ikponmwonba of Edo State High Court sitting in Benin on Wednesday July 20, 2022, convicted and sentenced Abudu Gentle Osarobo to three years imprisonment for fraud.
Osarobo was arraigned on one count charge by the Benin Zonal Command of the EFCC for fraudulent impersonation and obtaining by false pretence. He had impersonated one Barry Carson, a US military officer to defraud his victim.
In another development, Justice S. I. Mark of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State has ordered the remand of an internet fraud suspect, Nwosu Gospel Light, in the Port Harcourt Correctional Centre, pending the determination of his bail application.
Light on Wednesday July 20, 2022 pleaded not guilty to a two count charge impersonation and obtaining money by false pretense brought against him by the Port Harcourt Zonal Command of the EFCC.
Meanwhile, the Executive Chairman of the EFCC, Abdulrasheed Bawa, has said that the EFCC would continue to partner with relevant stakeholders to boost public involvement and more effective enlightenment about the menace of corruption.
He stated this on Monday, July 18, 2022 while receiving the Head of Station, Nigeria Police Radio, Andrew Aniamaka.
According to him, the radio is one of the best medium of dissemination of information and its potentials should be harnessed to promote anti-corruption campaigns.
The EFCC’s Chairman, who spoke through the Commission’s Director of Operations, Abdulkarim Chukkol explained that: “We are ready to grab every opportunity to ensure that our programmes and information are properly disseminated, because there are a lot of fake stories out there and if we don’t talk about our own stories the way it should be told, nobody will know.”
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