A court docket has sentenced Aisha Alkali Wakil, popularly often known as (Mama Boko Haram), Tahiru Saidu Daura, and Prince Lawal Soyade, to 10 years in jail for alleged fraud.
Mama Boko Haram and her accomplices have been discovered responsible after they have been introduced earlier than Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State Excessive Courtroom by the Maiduguri Zone Command of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC) on Thursday, March 5, 2020.
They have been charged with conspiracy and acquiring cash by false pretenses to the tune of N40m. This info was disclosed by Dele Oyewale, the spokesperson of the fee.
READ ALSO: Oshiomhole now agrees Buhari was a failure, he’s now not their hero after leaving workplace – Aisha Yesufu
Rely two of the indictment towards them reads: “That you just, Aisha Alkali Wakil, Tahiru Alhaji Saidu Daura and Prince Lawal Shoyade, whereas respectively 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, throughout the jurisdiction of this Honorable Courtroom, with intent to defraud, obtained the sum of Forty Million Naira (N40, 000, 000.00) from one Bashir Abubakar, the Chief Government Officer of Responsibility- Free Store Ltd below the false pretense of executing a purported contract for the availability of 5 (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 Price Fraud and Different Fraud Associated Offenses Act, 2006 and punishable below Part 1(3) of the identical Act.”
Nevertheless, the suspects pleaded not responsible when the fees have been learn to them through the court docket listening to on Monday, February 12.
The prosecutor, AI, Arogha, referred to as 4 witnesses and submitted seventeen items of proof through the trial.
READ ALSO: Nigeria is a really poor nation, our wealth is overestimated – Bayo Onanuga
Because of this, Justice Fadawu discovered the defendants responsible of conspiracy and sentenced them to 10 years in jail.
As well as, the court docket imposed a jail sentence of ten years for the crime of acquiring by false pretenses.
Moreover, the defendants have been ordered to collectively and individually pay Bashir Muhammad the sum of N40 million.
“The time period of imprisonment shall run concurrently with the expiry of any time period of imprisonment imposed on the convicted individuals by any court docket,” mentioned the choose.
The convicts' journey to the Correctional Heart started when a petitioner alleged that that they had defrauded him by an alleged contract for the availability of 5 (5) photo voltaic X-ray machines 1900 to a non-governmental group, NGO, Full Care and Support Basis, price N40m.
They neither delivered the machines nor returned the contract quantity to the petitioner.
Photograph credit score: Getty
Associated
