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Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of Kwara State High Court,
Ilorin on Thursday, August 7, 2020 convicted and sentenced the duo
of Akinola Opeyemi and Owolabi Olajide to three months of community
service for internet fraud.
They are to sweep the Physics Department of the University of
Ilorin and the premises of Saint Anthony Secondary School, Ilorin
for three months or pay N50,000 option of fine each.
The convicts were prosecuted by the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ilorin Zonal Office on separate one-count
charge of cheating and impersonation to which they pleaded
guilty.
An operative of the Commission, Olarewaju Lamidi, who reviewed
the fact of the case disclosed that trouble started for the
convicts when in March 2020, the Ilorin Zonal Office of the
Commission placed some areas of the city on surveillance, following
intelligence on the activities of internet fraudsters in the
municipality, and arrested the defendants and others as a
result.
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Analysis of iPhones and laptops recovered from the convicts,
yielded fraudulent email addresses and messages, which the convicts
confessed to be theirs.
Delivering his judgment, Justice Oyinloye said, “I have
carefully considered the evidence before the court, the exhibits
tendered and the uncontroverted testimony of the prosecution
witness. This honourable court holds that the prosecution has
proved its case beyond reasonable doubt, the defendants are hereby
convicted as charged.”
In sentencing them to community service, the judge directed the
Head of Physics Department, the University of Ilorin and the
Principal, Saint Anthony Secondary to issue an assessment letter on
the convicts’ compliance with the judgment to the Chief registrar
of the Kwara State High Court, at the completion of their community
service. Poor level of compliance, the judge stated, would earn the
convicts a direct six months imprisonment.
The case was prosecuted by Nnaemeka Omewa.
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