A Gombe State High Court on Wednesday convicted and sentenced two men, Ibrahim Abdullahi and Umar Usman, for employment scams.
The Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission, EFCC, in a statement explained that they obtaining the sum
of N682,847 from a victim, under false pretences.
Abdullahi and Usman were
separately arraigned on three counts bordering on cheating and employment scams.
The defendants pleaded guilty to the charges.
The charge sheet read; “That
you, Ibrahim Abdullahi, sometime in October 2020 and January 2021 in Gombe,
Gombe State, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, obtained the
Polaris ATM card property of Aminu Adamu Idris and Muhammed Saidu Jibril, which
you claimed was documentation for an offer of employment you secured for them
in a private liability company at Gombe, but rather used the said ATM card to
obtain a loan to the tune of N682,847 without their consent and thereby
committed an offence contrary to Section 320 of the Penal Code Law and
punishable under Section 322 of the same Law.”
The prosecutor, A.B. Kware,
asked with the court to sentence them appropriately, while the defendants’ attorney,
R.A. Anthony, pleaded with the judge to exercise mercy as they are first-time
offenders who regret their actions.
Justice Kereng sentenced
Abdullahi to one year in jail and a fine of N50,000, while Usman received a
sentence of two years in prison and a fine of N50,000.
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