Justice P.I. Ajoku of the
Federal High Court, Benin, Edo State toady convicted and sentenced one Emmanuel
Sunday (alias
Umoh Sunday Iyang, Iyang Samuel Chukwudi) to seven and half years imprisonment
without an option of fine for obtaining money under false pretence.
The convict was arraigned by
the Economic and Financial crimes Commission, EFCC, on March 19, 2014 on an
8-count charge bordering on obtaining money by false pretence. He pleaded not
guilty to the count charge.
After diligent prosecution, Justice Ajoku
found him guilty on the 5-count amended charge and sentenced him to thirty
months imprisonment each of the counts. The court also ordered that the convict
forfeit his two (2) phones to the Federal Government.
The journey to prison for
Emmanuel started when he was arrested in Benin on August 13, 2013 by the Nigerian
Army, 4 Brigade/sector 1, Operation Pulo
Shield, for posing as an Army Captain to defraud one Igue Endurance of the
sum of N1, 545,000.00 (One Million Five Hundred And Forty- Five Thousand Naira)
in the pretext that the said amount be used to facilitate her recruitment into
the Nigerian Army.
One of the charges read, “That you
Emmanuel Sunday ( also known as Umoh Sunday, Inyang Samuel Chukwudi) on or
about May, 2013, at Benin within the Jurisdiction of this honourable court,
with intent to defraud did represent yourself to be a captain with the Nigerian
Army and obtained the sum of Three Hundred Thousand Naira only(300,000.00) from
one Igue Endurance, which said money you used part of it and paid the sum of
Eighty Thousand Naira into your Diamond bank plc, account 0001857059, under the
pretence that the said sum would be used to get Igue Endurance recruited into
Nigerian Army, a pretext which you knew to be false and thereby committed an
offence contrary to section 1(1) (a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related
Offences Act 2006 and punishable under section 1(3) of the same Act”.
Wilson
Uwujaren
Head, Media & Publicity
5th December, 2014
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