Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State Excessive Courtroom, sitting in Maiduguri, on Monday, February 12, 2024, sentenced Aisha Wakil (in any other case often known as Mama Boko Haram), Tahiru Daura and Lawal Soyade to 10 years in jail.
This was disclosed late on Monday night in an announcement by the Head of Media and Publicity of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, Dele Oyewale.
The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the EFCC had earlier secured a conviction in opposition to Wakil and her accomplices for wrongfully acquiring N15m from one Bukar Kachalla of Hamiza World Assets Restricted beneath the guise of supplying three models of Chemistry Analyzer Photo voltaic Power Model Mannequin 1800 ( UK model).
The motion is claimed to be opposite to Part 1(1)(b) of the Advance Charge Fraud and Different Fraud Associated Offenses Act, 2006.
Former EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, in an announcement, mentioned Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State Excessive Courtroom sentenced Wakil and the others to seven years in jail for conspiracy and acquiring cash by false pretenses.
In his assertion, Oyewale mentioned: “The defendants have been jailed after they have been arraigned by the Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, EFCC, on Thursday, March 5, 2020, on a two-count indictment bordering on conspiracy and acquiring by false pretending to the tune of N40m.
Rely two of the indictment reads: “That you simply, Aisha Alkali Wakil, Tahiru Alhaji Saidu Daura and Prince Lawal Soyade, whereas serving respectively as Chief Government Officer, Program Supervisor and Nation Director of Full Care and Support Basis (a non-governmental group) ) and Saidu Mukhtar (at massive) someplace in Maiduguri, Borno State, inside the jurisdiction of this honorable courtroom, with intent to defraud, obtained the sum of N40 million from one Bashir Abubakar, the Chief Government Officer of Responsibility- Free Store Ltd, beneath the false pretense of executing a purported contract for the availability of 5 Photo voltaic X-ray Machines 1900 which you knew to be counterfeit and thereby dedicated an offense opposite to Part (1) 1 (b) of the Advance Charge Fraud and Different Fraud Associated Offenses Act, 2006 and punishable beneath Part 1(3) of the identical Act.”
Nevertheless, the defendants pleaded “not responsible” when the costs have been learn out to them, whereas the prosecution's counsel, A. I Arogha, offered 4 witnesses and submitted seventeen items of proof to the courtroom.
The assertion additionally learn that Justice Fadawu “convicted and sentenced them to 10 years in jail for conspiracy. The courtroom additional sentenced the defendants to 10 years in jail for acquiring by false pretenses and ordered them to collectively and severally pay the sum of N40 million to Bashir Muhammad.
“The jail sentence will run concurrently with the expiration of all jail phrases imposed on the convicted individuals by a courtroom.”
The convicts' journey to the detention middle started when a petitioner alleged that they’d defrauded him by an alleged contract for the availability of 5 photo voltaic X-ray machines 1900 to a non-governmental group, the Full Care and Support Basis, value Rs. N40 million.
They neither delivered the machines nor returned the contract quantity to the petitioner.
