Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

Two Bag Six Months Jail Term for $18,000 Fraud

Justice Sherifah Solebo of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja, Lagos, has convicted and sentenced Elijah Kuti and Ibrahim Ado Yerima to six months in prison for an $18,000 (Eighteen Thousand Dollar Fraud) fraud. The defendants were arraigned on Wednesday, March 20, 2019, following their arrest for defrauding a Bureau De Change Operator, Nasiru Ibrahim, on the pretext that the said amount of money would be sent to a recipient in Dubai. The first count reads: “That you, Elijah Oluwaseun Kuti, sometime in December, 2016 at Lagos within the Ikeja Judicial Division, had in your possession,…