The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on August 4, 2021 secured the conviction of one Gambo Suleiman before Justice M.T.M Aliyu of Kaduna State High Court, Kaduna for offences bordering on cheating.
The defendant who is a WAEC Supervisor at the Mando Custodial Centre, tricked his victim to part with N85, 000,000 over offer of non-existent job.
He was convicted and sentenced to a fine after pleading guilty to an amended one count charge
Before conviction, the defendant had restituted his victim the sum of N85, 000,000 (Eighty Five Thousand Naira) only.
The charge reads, “That you, Gambo Suleiman sometime between August and November, 2020 in Kaduna within the Judicial Division of this Honourable Court, did cheat one Fauziyya Adamu Tanko by pretending to secure an employment for her with the National Board for Arabic and Islamic Studies ( NBAIS) which made her part with the sum of N85,000,000 (Eighty Five Thousand Naira) only and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 306 of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law, 2017 and punishable under Section 307 of the same Law”.
