Kwara Court Jails 2 Varsity Students, Others Over Cybercrimes

Date: 2021-08-04

The Ilorin zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Tuesday, secured the conviction of a 400-level student of the University of Ilorin, Joshua Ogizien, and three other persons charged for offences bordering on internet fraud before Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin.

The three other convicts are Toheeb Muritala, a 200-level student of the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete; Rasheed Afeez Temitope, a graduate of Bartholomew College of Health Technology, Shao and Olaoluwa Samuel from Lagelu local government area of Oyo State.

Following credible intelligence reports on the activities of fraudsters swindling unsuspecting victims of their hard-earned income within Ilorin and its environs, operatives of the EFCC swung into action and in the process arrested the convicts at various locations within the metropolis.

They volunteered statements and confessed to the crimes.

Consequently, the suspects were arraigned on separate charges on Monday and pleaded guilty to the charges preferred against them.

Delivering judgment on the cases, Justice Abdulgafar held that the prosecution had established its case beyond reasonable doubts.

Consequently, the judge sentenced Joshua to one year imprisonment which should be suspended for one year and ordered the forfeiture of the devices recovered from him including the draft of N79,000 which he raised as restitution to the federal government.

The judge also sentenced Toheeb to one year imprisonment, which should be suspended for one year and ordered that the devices used to perpetrate the crime and the draft of N220,000.00 which he raised as restitution be forfeited to the federal government.

The judge equally sentenced Rasheed to six months imprisonment each on the two count preferred against him, which would run concurrently.

While the court ordered the suspension of the sentences by one year to enable the convict complete his education at KWASU, the devices recovered from him were forfeited to the federal government.

In the same vein, Olaoluwa was sentenced to a term of one year imprisonment on count one with option of fine of N50,000 and one year imprisonment on count two without an option of fine.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Ayo Adeyemi     Is\'haq Modibbo Kawu     Olaiya Zuberu     Deji Ajani     Olusin Of Ijara Isin     Olokoba Abdullahi Ayinla     Mahmud Babatunde Baker     Abdulmalik Bashir Mopelola Risikatullahi     Cornelius Fawenu     Kwara Central     Abdullahi Atanda     Okeose Christian Cementary     Maigida Soludero Transit     Abiodun Abdulkareem     Volunteers Of Ilorin Community And The Emirate     Kola Adesina     Ilorin Emirate     Otoge     Wahab Agbaje     Solomon Edojah     Maigidasanma     Sherif Sagaya     Rueben Parejo     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     Offa Grammer School     SSUCOEN     Mufutau Olatinwo     Sobi Hill     Yunus Oniboki     Savannah Centre For Diplomacy, Democracy And Development     Ahmed Mohammed Rifun     Abubakar Baba Sulaiman     Ajase-Ipo     Tinubu Legacy Forum     Modibbo Kawu     Olatunji Bamgbola     Ronke Adeyemi     ITP     Dagbalodo     Kayode Ishola     Majlis For Sadaqah, Zakat And Waqf     Paul Odama     Suleiman Idris     NYSC     Alore     Osinbajo     Senate President     Ademola Kiyesola     JMK Construction Company Limited     Funmilayo Zubair     Olabanji Orilonishe     Transition Implementation Committee     Sabo-Oke     Kazeem Oladepo     Bashir Adigun     Lukman Oyebanji Fagbemi     Toyin Falola     Abdulfatah Ahmed     Veterinary Teaching Hospital     20 Billion Bond     Ayotunde Emmanuel Alao     Ayekale     Joseph Offorjama     Ganmo Electricity Sub-Station     Balikis Jawondo     Oyedepo     Kwara Politics     GGDSS Pakata     Shururat Olatinwo     Elections     Ministry Of Women Affairs And Social Development     M.Y. Abdulrahaman     Baruten     Centre For Peace And Strategic Studies     Universal Basic Education Commission     Kayode Ibrahim     Amule    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Medinat Folorunsho Salman     Abubakar Baba Sulaiman     Farouk Salim     Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Ola Falade     Budo-Egba     Magaji Erubu     Yahaya Oloriegbe     Communication Network Support Services     PAACO-PCL Consortium     Raji AbdulRasaq     Photo News     Roseline Oni Aremu     Ilorin Emirate Staff Association     Boko Haram     Omotoso     Adisa Logun     Arinola Fatimoh Lawal     Lanre Badmus     Abdulrauf Aliyu     Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board     Shehu Alimi Foundation     Idris Amosa Oladipo Saidu     Roheemat Hammed     Dan Iya     April 11     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     Dan Masanin     Owu Fall     Yaman     Yusuf A. Usman     Salami Adekunle     Abdulrazaq Sanni     Yusuf Arowosaye     Kola Shittu     Abdulkadir Orire     Ganiyu Abolarin     Ganmo     Elections     Elelu     Shehu Raheem Adaramaja     Abdulrazaq Akorede     Olabode George Towoju     CCB     Atunwa     Femtech     Sango-UITH Road     Olupako     Jalala     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     SDP     Kudirat Arinola Lawal     Abdulrahman Abdulrasak     Centre For Community Empowerment And Poverty Eradication     Ayekale     Alaiye     Okanlawon Taiwo     Valsolar Consortium     Isiaka Oniwa     Ramadhan     Geri-Alimi Split Diamond Interchange     KW-GIS     IESA     Emir Of Yashikira     Presidential Election     Isin     VADA     Peter Obi     Aliyu Kora-Sabi     Rashidi Yekini     Olokoba Sulyman     Saliu Oluwole     Ibraheem Abdullateef     Gbenga Olawepo     Fola Consultant     KWASAA     Quran