The Kaduna Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on March 10, 2022 secured the conviction of one Umaru Farouq before Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court.
The defendant was said to have obtained the sum of N300,000.00 from one Olaoye Abiodun on the pretext that he was going to facilitate her employment with the Federal Inland Revenue Service, FIRS. When the promised job failed to materialize, she demanded for a refund but only got a paltry N30,000.00(Thirty Thousand Naira), leaving a balance of N 270,000.
The charge reads: “That you Haidiahi Umaru Faruoq sometime in July 2018, in Kaduna within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court dishonestly induced one Olaoye Taibat Abiodun to deliver to you the sum of N300,000.00 (Three Hundred Thousand Naira) only under the pretence that you were capable and will secure a job for her with Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) which pretence you knew to be false 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”.
The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge when it was read to him. Upon his plea, the prosecution counsel, Precious Onyeneho. urged the court to convict the defendant accordingly.
Justice Khobo thereafter sentenced the defendant to 10years imprisonment with the option of N200,000,00 (Two Hundred Thousand Naira) fine.