Court sentences Abuja big boy to community service for $270 fr@ud – Instablog9ja

Court sentences Abuja big boy to community service for $270 fr@ud

An Abuja big boy, Abass Aminu Abdulkareem, has been sentenced to community service by the Federal Capital Territory High Court sitting in Kubwa for $27O fr@ud.

The convict was arraigned before Justice O. I. Adelaja on a one count charge bordering on internet fr@ud by the Abuja Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, August 22, 2023.

The charge read, “That you, Abass Aminu Abdulkareem sometime in 2023 at Abuja within the jurisdiction of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory ch£at by personation when you represented yourself on a Facebook profile page as Jeremiah Lincoln, a citizen of the United States of America and under that name obtained he sum of $270 from Amanda, a cousin to Jeremiah Lincoln and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 321 of the Penal Code Law (Laws of the Federation, Abuja) 1990 and puni§hable under Section 324 of the same Law”.

The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge, following which Justice Adelaja convicted and sentenced him to community service to be supervised by the Nigerian Correctional Service’s Officers.

The convict also forfeits his iPhones 12 Pro and XR to the Federal Government.

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