Two siblings and one other person were on Tuesday, sentenced to four months imprisonment by an Ilorin High Court for cheating and engaging in internet fraud.
The convicts were charged to court for offences bordering on cheating and internet fraud by the Ilorin Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The convicts are 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 convicts had during their arraignment on Monday pleaded guilty to the four count-:charge preferred against them by the EFCC.
Counsel to EFCC, Nnaemeka Omawa told the 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 the section 276 of the administration of criminal justice act, the accused persons during their extra judicial 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 Mahmud 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 all the exhibits recovered from them to the Federal Government.
