Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

COURT JAILS TWO BROTHERS FIVE YEARS FOR $788 SCAM

Justice J. K. Omotosho of the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has convicted and sentenced two brothers: Otojareri Governor Lucky (a.k.a Sam Lewis) and Otojareri President Mayor (a.k.a John Jacob Carison) to five years imprisonment for obtaining money under false pretences contrary to Section 1(1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act. Lucky and Mayor were arraigned by the Port Harcourt Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Thursday October 25, 2019 on o…