The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan zonal office, has jailed two persons earlier arrested for internet fraud.
The duo of Maiku Abdulakeem and Yomi Samson were convicted and sentenced to different jail terms on Tuesday, May 7, 2019 by judges of the Federal High Court, Ibadan Division.
Abdulakeem bagged three months jail after Justice P. I Ajoku declared him guilty of a one-count amended charge of criminal impersonation preferred against him by the EFCC.
The convict, through his lawyer, had earlier approached the Commission for a plea bargain agreement on terms that he would plead guilty to the charge and be sentenced to three months in prison.
After pleading guilty to the amended charge, prosecution counsel, Mabas Mabur, urged the court to convict Abdulakeem accordingly.
The Commission’s prayer was granted as the court jailed Abdulakeem, declaring that the sentencing takes effect from March 8, 2019 when he was initially arrested by the Commission.
But Samson was not as lucky as Justice Joyce Malik sent him to jail for eight months.
He was also found guilty of criminal impersonation, the one-count amended charge for which he was arraigned after a plea bargain agreement with the Commission.
The court also ordered that he restitutes a sum of N48,000 (Forty-Eight Thousand Naira) only, being benefit he derived from his fraudulent act and forfeit his Tecno Spark handset to the Federal government of Nigeria.
