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Internet Fraud: Kwara Poly student to write exam from prison 

 

By Kayode Adeoti

Authorities at the Mandala Prison have been ordered to facilitate how one Adebisi Toheeb Adedayo would write his second semester examination from the facility after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) secured his conviction and that of Olorunwa Okikiola, both students of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin for offences bordering on internet fraud.
It was gathered that the charge against Adebisi read, “That you, Adebisi Toheeb Adedayo, (alias James Read) sometimes in January 2019, at Ilorin within the judicial division of the High Court, did attempt to cheat by impersonation, when you pretended to be one James Read, a white Caucasian male, with gmail account, [email protected] and in a love relationship, a representation you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 95 of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 324 of the same Penal Code.”
Similarly, the charge against Olorunwa read, “That you, Olorunwa Okikiola, sometime in June 2019 or thereabout at Ilorin, Kwara State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court attempted to commit an offence by pretending and representing yourself to be a white man in love with a white woman, Pearl Mills as it is contained in your gmail account: [email protected] and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 95 and 321 of the same Penal Code law and punishable under Section 322 of the same law.
Olorunwa was convicted and sentenced to six months imprisonment by Justice Sikiru Oyinloye while Adebisi was sentenced to six months imprisonment by Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar, both of the Kwara State High Court, sitting in Ilorin.
They were also ordered to forfeit mobile phones recovered from them to the Federal Government, while authorities at the Mandala Prison were ordered to facilitate how Adedayo would write his second semester examination.

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