Justice J. K. Omotosho of the Federal High Court Kano, on Wednesday convicted and sentenced the duo of Emmanuel Moyi a.k.a Abba Musa Bello and Victor Ali Ishaya to sixty years and fifty years imprisonment respectively on six count charges of offences bordering on conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretence.
The convicts were arraigned before the court for duping their victims of huge sums of money by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on May 16, 2016.
Investigations by the anti-graft agency revealed that the convicts opened accounts specifically to perpetrate their fraudulent activities.
The accused pleaded guilty to the charges brought against them.
In view of thier plea, Justice Omotosho, asked the prosecution to produce their witnesses.
The prosecution counsel N.K. Ukoha after closing his case with only one witness, urged the court to convict the defendants accordingly.
In his judgment, Justice Omotosho convicted and sentenced the first convict Emmanuel Moyi to ten years imprisonment with option N100,000 fine, on each of count one to six while the second convict was sentenced to ten years imprisonment with option of N100,000 fine on each of count two to six.
The sentences are to run concurrently.
Count two of the charge read “That you, Emmanuel Moyi a.k.a Abba Musa Bello, Victor Ali Ishaya and other at-large, sometime in 2015 at Kano within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court conspired among yourselves to commit an offense to wit; obtain the sum of N500,000.00 under false pretences from one Kashim Ibrahim which was paid into First Bank Nigeria Account no. 3090287933 and name of Abba Musa Bello , and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 8(1) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud Related Offence Act, 2006 and punishable under section 1(3) of the same Act.
