One Temitope Awobeku has been sent to prison for three years for the stealing over one million naira belonging to one aged Professor Joseph Chike Edozie.
Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of the Lagos State Special Offences Court, sitting in Ikeja, found Awobeku guilty of the charges brought against her by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
Awobeku was accused of collecting the money from Professor EDOZIE as payment for duties and charges to clear his goods.
However; Justice Taiwo also ruled that if AWOBEKU refunds Professor EDOZIE’s one point one-nine-three million naira and pays a fine of two hundred thousand naira, she would not be sent to prison.
In another development; Justice LADIRAN AKINTOLA of the Oyo State High Court, sitting in Ibadan, has found one Oluwatobi Damilola Aina guilty of fraud.
The Ibadan Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission dragged twenty-six-year-old AINA to court for pretending to be a woman, with the fake name “NAMITA COOLING”.
The EFCC claimed that Aina intended to use the fake identity to deceive people, of which he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four months in prison.
Elsewhere; Justice N. I. Buba of the Federal High Court in Enugu has jailed Ebene Favour and Desmond Onumajuru for one year each for internet fraud.
The EFCC said Onumajuru admitted disguising himself as a woman by the name of Alicia Park, and attempted to defraud a white man known as Sangig Lim.
Also, Justice Dugbo Oghoghorie of another Federal High Court in Enugu sentenced one Obinna Ozor Peter to three months in prison for internet fraud.
Peter, who is said to be a student of the Imo State University, was given an option of One Hundred Thousand Naira fine.