EFCC Press Release
Justice Mohammed Garba Umar of the Federal
High Court, Gombe today sentenced one Khalil Ahmed Bappa, 29, who claims to be a
GLO Ambassador, to 24 months imprisonment for fraudulently extorting goods and
money worth N267, 000 from a female student of Bayero
University, Kano, Yusra Ali Babakusa, with assurances of
making her a Glo Ambassador.
Khalil who has been
standing trial on charges bordering on obtaining by false pretences surprisingly
changed his plea midway by pleading guilty to the 2-count charge.
Troubles for Khalil
started sometime in 2012 when he presented
himself as a GLO agent and promised to help Yusra become a GLO Ambassador
through his contacts at the Communication’s company. The convict had forwarded
a code number to Yusra with assurances that she would soon be called up as one
of the eventual winners and ambassador. Subsequently, Khalil instructed her to
send some money to him to facilitate the process. The accused person further
told her to prepare for an interview trip to GLO head office in Lagos as her name had been
selected; a journey Khalil said had been paid for by GLO (accommodation and
return flight ticket).
On the expected day
of the journey, Khalil prompted her to wait for him, but stopped answering her
calls after a while and eventually switched off his phone. It was when she made
numerous attempts to reach him but failed, that she realized she had been
conned.
Justice Umar sentenced
the convict to 12 months imprisonment without an option of fine on each of the counts.
The sentence would however run concurrently from the date of arrest.
The court also
ordered the convict to restitute his victim before the completion of his jail
term and release from prison detention.
Wilson Uwujaren
Head, Media
& Publicity
24th
June, 2014
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