The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, July 26, 2022, secured the conviction and sentencing of one Al –Amin Idris to six months imprisonment for cheating to the tune of N4m.

The defendant was first arraigned on Monday, January 31, 2022 before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court on a one count charge following investigation into a petition alleging that he obtained N4m over the purported sale of a non-existent plot of land.

He had pleaded not guilty to the charge. But midway into the charge, he changed his plea and pleaded guilty to an amended one count charge.

The charge reads, “That you, Al-Amin Idris sometime in November 2018 at Maiduguri, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, induced one Muhammad H. K. Shani to deliver to you the sum of N4, 000,000.00 (Four Million Naira) under the guise that the said amount represents payment for the purchase of a purported plot of land No. 275 on BOTP/72 Pompomari Residential Layout with Right of Occupancy no. BO/6387 which you knew to be false thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 320 (a) and punishable under Section 322 of the Penal Code Cap 102 Laws of Borno State.”

The defendant pleaded guilty to the charge preferred against him by the prosecution.

In view of his plea, the prosecution counsel, Mukhtar Ali Ahmed, prayed the court to convict him as charged.

Justice Kumaliya convicted and sentenced Idris to six months imprisonment starting from the day he was remanded in prison custody and further ordered him to pay a fine of N100, 000.00 (One Hundred Thousand Naira) fine or, in default, serve a one year prison term.

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26 July, 2022