Court jails two siblings for internet fraud in Kwara

Date: 2019-05-15

Kwara state High Court sitting in Ilorin, the state capital on Tuesday sentenced two siblings and another person to four-month imprisonment for cheating and internet fraud.

Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ilorin Zonal office charged the three to court for offences bordering of cheating and internet fraud.

The suspects include two brothers of the same parents, Olaogun Seun, Olaogu Abidemi and Ojor.

One of the charge reads: "That you, Olaogu Seun, Olaogu Abidemi and Ojor Alex sometimes in March 2019 or thereabouts at Ilorin, Kwara State within the jurisdiction of this honourable court agreed among yourselves to do an illegal act to with: cheating by impersonation and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 96 of the penal code law and punishable under section 97 and 324 of the same law."

The three accused persons during their arraignment had on Monday this week pleaded guilty to the four-count charge levelled against them by the anti-graft body.

Counsel to EFCC Nnaemeka Omawa told the court that "the defendants had prior to their arraignment, approached the commission for a plea bargain agreement, we have considered it, bother the prosecution and the defendants have come up with the terms in line with section 276 of the administration of criminal justice act, the accused persons during their extrajudicial statements have confessed to the crime."

Defence counsel Taofeek Alubarika, however, pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy, saying his clients had shown remorse on what they did.

Delivering his judgement, Justice M. Abdulgafar sentenced the trio to four months imprisonment effective from the 15th day of April 2019."

The sentence is without option of fine and it will run concurrently.

He also ordered for the forfeiture of defendants to forfeit all the exhibits recovered from them to the Federal Government.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Shehu Alimi Foundation For Peace And Development     Mashood Dauda     Saka Balikis Kehinde     Musa Aibinu     Sun Qing Rong     Muhammad Ghali Alaaya     Adegoke Bamidele     Wahab Isa     Hausa     Women Radio     Mumini Ishola Hanafi     Tosin Saraki     Ajike People Support Centre     International Aviation College     IESA     ER-KANG Mining     Okin Group     Katibi Ibraheem Adeola     Abdulwahab Ololele     Salake     Oba-Solagberu     Oniwasi Agbaye     Abiodun Abdulkareem     N-Power     Damilola Yusuf Adelodun     Garuba Alikinla Shittu     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Adamu Attah     Abdulrazak Shehu Akorede     IQRA College     Geri-Alimi Split Diamond Interchange     Ayobami Akanbi     Shehu Alimi Foundation     Harafat E. Mukadam     Laduba     Abdulmumini Jawondo     Suleiman Ajadi     Usman Rifun     Rafiu Olasile     Ibrahim Labaika     Mufutau Gbadamosi Esuwoye     Pilgrims Board     Sambo Murtala     Moronfoye     Lateef Alagbonsi     A.O. Belgore     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     Maigidasanma     Shoprite     Durosinlohun Kawu     Femi Agbaje     Ridhwanullah Al-Ilory     Inside Kwara     Abubakar Ndakene     Haashim Initiative For Community Advancement     Kunle Akogun     Yekini Adio     Oloruntoyosi Thomas     Aliyu Kora Sabi     Bibire Ajape     Naira Redesign     Vishvas KOZ Tractors     Special Adviser On Digital Innovation     Rotimi Oyedepo     Mahfouz Adedimeji     Akeem Lawal     Talaka Parapo     Abdullah Janet Amudat     Curfew     SDP     General Hospital     Gambari     Abdulmumini AbdulRazaq     Col. Ibrahim Taiwo     Rashidi Yekini     Simeon Sule Ajibola     Tinubu Legacy Forum    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Mohammed Yisa     Popo-Igbonna     Issa Oloruntogun     Rebecca Olanrewaju     Bolakale Saka     EndSARS     Emir Of Yashikira     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     Oniye     Oloje     Nigerian Army     Saduki Lafiagi     Adijat Adebiyi     Lanre Olosunde     Abdulrasheed Na\'Allah     Is\'haq Modibbo Kawu     Ahmed Bolaji Nagode     Oba Of Jebba     Al-Hikmah University     Muhammed Danjuma     Elerin Of Erin-Ile     Suleiman Alege Kuranga     Isiaka Rafiu Mope     Lafiagi     Aishatu Ahmed Gobir     Sadiq Umar     Femi Oladiji     Tafida Of Kaiama     Olatunji Ayeni     Oyawoye     Atunwa     Isiaka Oniwa     Millennium Development Goals     Modibbo Kawu     Saliu Mustapha     Susan Modupe Oluwole     Kupchi Hosea Maxwell     Rabiu Kwankwaso     Roheemat Hammed     Nigerian Correctional Service     Akume     Www.Kwarareports.com     SUBEB     Emir Of Shonga     Ajia-Bako     Amada Jidda     Abdulrazaq Magaji     Yeketi     Yahaya A Paniyaro     Abdulrazaq Akorede     Abubakar Atiku     Inside Kwara     Abraysports FC     Kazeem Oladepo     Dan Masanin     Taofik Abdulkareem     Kwara State Television     Hamidu Olowo     Association Of Kwara State Online Media Practitioners     John Kehinde Salako     Idris Amosa Saidu     Frootify     Bayer Nigeria Limited     Baba Issa Awoye     Garba Ayodele Wahab     Abdulfatai Ahmed     Babatunde Idiagbon     Adesina Simon Sodiya     Ibikunle Ogunleye     KWSUED     Kolawole Bashirat     Code Of Conduct Tribunal     Yusuf Babatunde Abdulwahab     Tunde Idiagbon Road     Ahmad Uthman     Ilorin Emirate Stakeholders Forum     Gbemi Saraki