Justice Adenike Akinpelu of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Thursday, February 11, 2021 convicted a serving Corps member, Sam Abiola and one Adebiyi Sodiq.
The two were arraigned on Monday, February 1, 2021 over offences bordering on attempted cheating and love scam by the Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
Abiola, 26, currently serving in Kogi State and Sodiq,18, were arraigned on separate charges contrary to Section 321 of the Penal Code Law and punishable under Section 324 of the same law.
While one count was preferred against Abiola, Sodiq was prosecuted on a four-count charge.
The EFCC had last week reviewed the facts of the case after the defendants pleaded guilty to their separate charge, following which it urged the court to convict them based on their pleas and the evidence placed before it. But, the court adjourned till today for judgment.
Justice Akinpelu in her judgment today, sentenced Abiola to six months imprisonment with an option of fine of N100,000.
In a similar fashion, the judge sentenced Sodiq to six months imprisonment on each of counts 1,2,3 and 4 with N100,000 as option of fine on each of the counts.
The Judge ordered that the convicts’ phones and laptops used as instruments to perpetrate the crime be forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria.
