POS operator jailed 20 years after making N20,000 from transaction for Boko Haram member

A Maiduguri-based businessman, Umar Bashir, has been sentenced to 20 years imprisonment without enactment of good for coercion financing.

The convict who claimed to beryllium a large trader successful lipid perfumes and besides a Point Of Sales, POS, operator, was recovered blameworthy of utilizing his relationship fig 2213629628 with the United Bank of Africa, UBA, to transact wealth transportation for members of the Boko Haram sect.

He specifically admitted utilizing the slope relationship to judge a currency magnitude of N5 cardinal from a Boko Haram member, Ibrahim Modu, and aboriginal transferred aforesaid into the Access Bank relationship of the terrorist, with fig 1834250967.

The convict admitted committing the offence astatine Maiduguri successful 2025, adding that helium got a committee of N20,000 from the deal.

Upon his arraignment by the Federal Government on Monday, Bashir pleaded blameworthy arsenic charged.

Based connected his admittance of guilt and his confessional statement, Justice Binta Fatimah Nyako subsequently pronounced him blameworthy and sentenced him to 20 years imprisonment without enactment of fine.

Justice Nyako ordered that the condemnation should statesman from 2025 erstwhile helium was arrested and detained.

The j...