Borno State High Court sitting in Maiduguri has convicted Aisha Alkali Wakil, popularly known as Mama Boko Haram, and two others, Tahiru Saidu Daura and Prince Lawal Soyade to 10 years imprisonment for a fraud worth N40 million.
The presiding judge, Justice Umaru Fadawu on Monday convicted the trio of Wakil, Daura, and Soyade after they were arraigned by the EFCC on two counts of conspiracy and obtaining by pretense to the tune of forty million naira.
EFCC spokesperson Dele Oyewale in a statement said that Wakil, Daura, and Shoyade, respectively, CEO, Programme Manager, and Country Director of Complete Care and Aid Foundation, a non-governmental organization, and Saidu Mukhtar, now at large, did, with intent to defraud, obtain N40 million from Bashir Abubakar, the CEO of Duty-Free Shop Ltd, under the pretense of executing a purported contract for the supply of five x-ray machines with solar energy.
“The convicts’ journey to the correctional center began when a petitioner alleged that they swindled him through a purported contract to supply five x-ray machines 1900 with solar energy to a non-governmental organization, Complete Care and Aid Foundation, worth N40m. They neither supplied the machines nor returned the contract sum to the petitioner,” the statement added.
Counsel for the prosecution, A.I. Arogha, presented four witnesses and tendered 17 exhibits before the court.
According to Oyewale, the offense was contrary to Section 1(b) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006, and punishable under Section 1(3).
The defendants pleaded “not guilty” when the charges were read to them.
Fadawu after convicting the suspects for conspiracy ordered them to jointly and severally pay the sum of N40 million to Bashir Muhammad and that prison terms will run concurrently.
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