Cybercrime: Kwara Court jails 3 undergraduate students
Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Tuesday convicted and sentenced three undergraduate students to various jail terms. The convicts were dragged to court by the Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over offences bordering on love scam and internet fraud. They are Abubakar […]
The 3 undergraduate students convicted
Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Tuesday convicted and sentenced three undergraduate students to various jail terms.
The convicts were dragged to court by the Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over offences bordering on love scam and internet fraud.
They are Abubakar Abdulbasit Opeyemi, a final year Student of the University of Ilorin, Alimi Abiodun and Idowu Rasaq Olarewaju, who are students of the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, and Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, respectively.
The three convicts pleaded guilty to the charges preferred against them during the trial that lasted several hours.
Delivering his judgment, Justice Abdulgafar while relying on the plea of guilt entered by the defendants and the various exhibits tendered against them held that the prosecution succeeded in proving its case beyond reasonable doubts.
Consequently, Abdulbasit Opeyemi was sentenced to six months imprisonment and also ordered to forfeit his iPhones, hp Laptop which were used as instruments in committing the crime, and a draft of N50,000 he raised as restitution to the federal government.
For Abiodun, the judge sentenced him to one year and three months imprisonment, and also ordered the forfeiture of his iPhone and the sum of N352,000 draft raised by him to the federal government.
Idowu bagged six months imprisonment at Mandala Correctional Centre and was ordered to forfeit his 2014 Toyota Venza, 2 iPhones, hp Laptop, the sum of N404, 414.93 in his First Bank account to the federal government.
“The sentences are without option of fine”, the judge added.