A final year student of the University of Ilorin, Abubakar Abdulbashit Opeyemi, and two other undergraduate students charged with offences bordering on love scam and internet fraud have been sentenced to various jail terms in Ilorin, Kwara State.
The two other convicts are Alimi Abiodun and Idowu Rasaq Olarewaju, who are students of the Kwara State University (KWASU), Molete and Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, respectively.
The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), secured the conviction
on Tuesday, July 27, 2021.
Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin convicted and sentenced the three undergraduates to various jail terms after the court found them guilty of various offences preferred against them by the EFCC.
The three convicts, who were arraigned on separate charges, pleaded guilty to the charge preferred against them.
In 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, Opeyemi was sentenced to six months imprisonment, which shall be suspended for one year. The judge also ordered that the convict’s iPhones, HP Laptop which were used as instruments in committing the crime, and a draft of N50,000 which he raised as restitution, be forfeited to the Federal Government.
In sentencing Abiodun, the judge gave him three months imprisonment on count one and one year imprisonment on count two, which shall be suspended for one year. He also ordered the forfeiture of his iPhone and the sum of N352,000 draft raised by him (the convict) to the Federal Government.
For Idowu, Justice Abdulgafar sentenced him to six months imprisonment, which shall be suspended for six months. He also ordered the forfeiture of the convict’s 2014 Toyota Venza, 2 iPhones, HP Laptop, the sum of N404,414.93 million in his First Bank account to the Federal Government.
“The sentences are without option of fine”, the judge added.
