EFCC Operatives
Man Bags
EFCC Operatives
Man Bags Two Years Jail Term, Fine for Land
Fraud
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Maiduguri
Zonal Office on Monday, September 9, 2019 secured the conviction of
one Alhaji Mustapha Mohammed.
He bagged two years with an additional N300,000 fine from
Justice Fadawu Umar of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri on a
one-count amended charge, bordering on obtaining by false
pretence.
Trouble began for the convict when the Commission received a
petition from the duo of Yerima Mukhtar and Abbas Sadiq Hassan,
accusing him of issuing a fake grant offer to them for a plot of
land they bought from him in Maiduguri.
Prosecution counsel, Benjamin Manji, led Dauda Umar, an EFCC
detective in evidence, who narrated how the plot of land was sold
to the complainants with a fake grant offer.
The charge reads: “That you, Alhaji Mustapha Mohammed on or
about the 12th day of December, 2015 at Maiduguri, within the
jurisdiction of this honourable court with intent to defraud,
induced Yerima Mukhtar and Abbas Sadiq Hassan to part with the sum
of N690,000.00 (Six Hundred and Ninety Thousand Naira) under the
pretence of selling to them a plot of land with grant No. 68 on
BOT/159 situated at Polo, Maiduguri, which you knew to be false and
thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 320 and Punishable
under Section 322 of the Penal Code Law Cap.102, Laws of Borno
State.”
He pleaded guilty to the charge, following which Justice Fadawu
convicted and sentenced him to two years in prison with additional
fine of N300,000. In default of payment of the fine, the convict
will spend additional one year in prison.
Wilson Uwujaren
Head, Media and Publicity