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.

Ishaq Abdulkarim     Oke-opin     Doyin Group     Ilorin Emirate Stakeholders Forum     Abioye Bello     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     Ridwan Agboola     Oba Sulaiman Asude     Idofin     Saka Aleshinloye     Dauda Adesola     Sunday Popo-Ola     Bursary     Roheemat Hammed     Sarah Alade     Federal Polytechnic Offa     Mumeen Lah     Ilorin Talaka Parapo     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     Societe Generale Bank Of Nigeria     Sarah Jubril     Oba David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Bayo Mohammed Onimode     Oniyangi     Sidikat Akaje     Baaziki Sulaiman     Dauda Adeniran Adeshola     Oniwasi Agbaye     Olumide Daniel Ibitoye     Tafida Of Ilorin     Bashiru Makama     Sam Okaula     Saka Onimago     Abubakar Lah     Ahmed Mohammed Rifun     Kwara State Printing And Publishing Corporation     Marafan Shonga     Modibbo Kawu     Saba Jibril     Oye Tinuoye     Maryam Nurudeen     Hassan Abdulazeez Elewu     Voices Of Tomorrow     Bareke     Mahe Abdulkadir     Elerinjare-Ibobo     Saadatu Modibbo-Kawu     Saka Abimbola Isau     Abdullahi Adisa Akodudu     Saadu Alanamu     Owo Arugbo     Kawu Baraje     Muhammad Akande Olarewaju Odunade     Aliyu Kora-Sabi     Nigerian Correctional Service     CBT     Isiaka Oniwa     Harrison Osauwagboe     All Peoples Party     Mahee Abdulkadir     NYSC     Bolakale Ayo     Asa     Opobiyi     CACOVID     Code Of Conduct     Kwara State Football Association     Yusuf Abubakar     Split Diamond Interchange     Mahmud Ajeigbe     Umar Sanda Yusuf     Saad Omo Iya     Ambassador Kayode Laro     Alfa Modibo Belgore     Zulu Gambari     Village Alive Development Association     Suleiman Ajadi    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Saka Adeyemo     Abubakar Imam     Gurei     Ayedun     Medinat Folorunsho Salman     JUSUN     Oladimeji Thompson     Nigeria Governors\' Forum     Kola Bukoye     SSA Youth Engagement     Ayodele Shittu     Solomon Edoja     Maimunat Oniyangi     Samari     Unilorin     Ayodele Kuburat Olaosebikan     Ahmed Idris Mohammed     Kayode Ibrahim     Shuaib Boni Aliyu     Ishak Mohammed Sabi     Lawal Olohungbebe     Flights To Ilorin     Onikijipa     New Nigeria People’s Party     Bature Bello     Abubakar Usman Jos     Lawyers Unite Against Corruption     Igbaja     Hameed Oladipupo Ali     Ethical College     Yaru     Micheal Imodu-Ganmo Road     Oko     CCT     Balogun Fulani     MAI Akande     Isiaka Saka Opobiyi     KWASEIC     Aasiyat Bello Oyedepo     Basic Education Certificate Examination     Undergraduate Bursary     Kwha.gov.ng     Emir Of Shonga     Ilorin     Abubakar Atiku     Yusuf Amuda Aluko     Ajidagba     Tunji Olawuyi     Federal College Of Education (Special), Afon     REO CAKES     Kwarareports.com     Muazam Nayaya     Diagnostic Centre     Abdulrazaq Solihudeen     Edu     Ayinke Saka     Osuwa     Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq     Kwara Primary Health Care Development Agency     Abdulganiy Abimbola Abdussalam     AbdulRahman Saad     Laduba     Mohammed Alabi Lawal     David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Mamatu Abdullahi     Opolo Global Innovation Limited     Kwara State Polytechnic     Kolo     Government High School (GHS), Adeta     Razak Atunwa     Adanla-Irese     Elelu     IEDPU     Sardauna     Usman Rifun     Ayobami Akanbi     Adamu Attah