Emmanuel Moyi a.k.a Abba Musa Bello and Victor Ali Ishaya were on
Thursday November 24, 2016 convicted and sentenced to sixty years and
fifty years imprisonment respectively on six count charges of offences
bordering on conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretences by
Justice J. K. Omotosho of Federal High Court Kano.
The prosecution of the two convicts started when EFCC received a
petition from some of their victims alleging that the convicts obtained
several sums of money from them under the guise that they were going to
give them employment and job contracts.
The convicts succeeded in their fraudulent activity through phone calls with different GSM numbers and phony names.
By the time victims had parted with huge sums of money through different
bank accounts supplied by the convicts, they realised they had being
duped.
Investigations by the EFCC confirmed that those accounts were
specifically opened by the convicts in order to perperate their
fraudulent activities.
The convicts were arraigned on 16th may, 2016 by the EFCC. Upon
arraignment, they pleaded guilty to all the charges read against them.
In view of their plea, Justice Omotosho, invited the prosecution to
produce their witnesses. But the prosecution counsel N.K. Ukoha only
produced one witness and urged the court to convict the defendants
accordingly.
The matter was then adjourned to yesterday where Justice Omotosho
convicted and sentenced Emmanuel Moyi to ten years imprisonment with
option of a N100,000 (One Hundred Thousand Naira Only) fine, on each of
the six counts while the second convict was sentenced to ten years
imprisonment with option of N100,000 (One Hundred Thousand Naira Only)
fine on each of count two to six.
The sentences are to run concurrently.
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