Court Sentences Two to Jail For Fraud

A Sokoto State High Court has convicted and sentenced two people to three years imprisonment each for committing an Automated Teller Machine fraud.

Abdulmajeed Habeeblah and Nana Hauwau Umar were convicted after pleading guilty to two counts of charges bordering on criminal conspiracy and theft by the presiding judge, Justice Mohammed Mohammed.

The convicts were given an option of twenty thousand naira fine each on count one and thirty thousand naira each on count two.

The judge also ordered the convicts to fully return to their victim the sum of One Hundred and Forty-One Thousand Naira stolen from his bank account.

The criminals were arraigned by the Sokoto Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

The spokesman of EFCC, Mr Wilson Uwujaren said the convicts started their journey to the Correctional Centre when they stole the sum of one hundred and forty-one thousand naira from the Guarantee trust bank account of Maiyaki Hamza Usman in April 2021.

FRCN Abuja/Adetutu Adetule