Fake prophet jailed for N136.4m fraud in Enugu

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Enugu Zonal Directorate, has secured the condemnation and condemnation of 1 Godwin Sunday Ajuluchukwucheya, besides known arsenic Prophet Sunday Koboko.

Prophet Koboko was arraigned earlier Justice H. O. Eya of the Enugu State High Court, sitting successful Independence Layout.

He was prosecuted connected a two-count complaint bordering connected obtaining by mendacious pretence and stealing to the tune of N136,436,000.

The offences, according to the court, contravene Section 1(1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006, and are punishable nether Section 1(3) of the aforesaid Act.

However, Ajuluchukwucheya pleaded blameworthy to the charges erstwhile they were work to him.

In presumption of his plea, counsel to the EFCC, Assistant Commander of the EFCC (ACE II) Rotimi Ajobiewe, prayed the tribunal to convict and condemnation him accordingly.

Justice Eya thereafter convicted and sentenced him to 1 twelvemonth imprisonment, with an enactment of a N500,000 fine.

The tribunal besides ordered that the convict’s landed property, covered by a Customary Certificate of Occupancy dated July 25, 1989, and registered arsenic No. 92 astatine Page 92 successful Volume 512 of the Land Registry, Enugu, beryllium forfeited to the Federal Government of Nigeria done the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The spot is to beryllium sold, with the proceeds utilized arsenic restitution for the victims o...