The fraudster popularly known as Mama Boko Haram, Aisha Alkali Wakil has again been convicted and sentenced to fourteen years jail term over N11million contract fraud in Maiduguri, Borno State Capital.
Penpushing reports that Head Media and Publicity of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Dele Oyewale made this known in a statement on Wednesday, adding that the notorious Mama Boko Haram was jailed alongside Tahiru Saidu Daura and Prince Lawal Shoyode
The statement said Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court sitting in Maiduguri sentenced the convicts and they are to spend fourteen years each behind bar, adding that they were arraigned on September 14, 2020
Penpushing further reports that the Maiduguri Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) arraigned the trio, on a two -count charge bordering on conspiracy and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N11,000,000.00.
“That you, Aisha Alkali Wakil, Tahiru Saidu Daura, Prince Lawal Shoyode whilst being Chief Executive Officer, Programme Manager and Country Director respectively of Complete Care and Aids Foundation (Non-Governmental Organisation) and Saidu Mukhtar (now at large) sometime in July, 2018 at Maiduguri within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with intent to defraud obtained the sum of N11,000,000.00 (Eleven Million Naira) only from one Muhammed Ambare of Muhammed Ambare Ventures under the false pretence of executing a purported contract of supply, installation and servicing of 2 units of X- Ray Machine Model 1800, which you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(1) (b) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud Related Offences, Act, 2006 and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act’, count two of the charge reads
Penpushing also reports that the statement stated that the defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges when they were read to them, prompting the matter to go into full trial, adding that in the course of trial, prosecution counsel Mukhtar Ali Ahmed and S.O Saka presented one witness and tendered several documents before the court in proving the case.
The judge delivering judgment on Wednesday after several adjournments at the instance of the defendants convicted and sentenced them on count one and two to seven years imprisonment each.
Penpushing reports that the judge ordered the convicts to jointly and severally restitute the sum of N8million to the petitioner or serve an additional seven years prison term, however, the prison terms are to run concurrently.
The record has it that the convicts’ journey to the Correctional facility started as a result of their dubious act of awarding purported contracts for the supply, installation and services of two units of X- Ray Machine Model 1800 to the petitioner and his company.
Penpushing further reports that they made the petitioner to transfer the sum of N11,000,000.00 into a third party’s account, Saidu Muktar (now at large) and the contract was never executed nor the money returned to the petitioner.
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