Police, Immigration Officers Sentenced To 21 Years Imprisonment For N1.6m fraud In Gombe

Two officers of the law have been arrested and arraigned in court for employment fraud in Gombe state.

Daily Report Nigeria gathers that the three accused, Yusuf AbdulKarim Bature and Musa Philip who are policemen, and Nasiru Mohammed, an immigrant officer were arraigned before the Federal High Court, Gombe state over N1.640,000 employment fraud.

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Delivering judgement, the presiding judge, Justice T.G. Ringin convicted the duo, while also sentencing them to seven years imprisonment each.

Bature and Philip were arraigned on two count – charges of obtaining by false pretences and intent to defraud while Mohammed was arraigned on one- count charge of obtaining by false pretences by the Gombe Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

The count reads;

That you Yusuf Abdul karim Bature and Musa Philip while being public officers with the Nigerian Police Force sometime in 2022 in Gombe within the Gombe Judicial division at the Federal High Court of Justice did with intent to defraud falsely obtained from one Asabe Hamed the total sum of Nine Hundred and Seventy Thousand Naira for the purpose of securing a job, a claim you knew to be false”

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that you Nasiru Mohammed sometime in 2022 in Gombe within the jurisdiction of this honourable court while being a staff of the Nigerian Immigration Service did falsely obtained the sum of Six Hundred and Seventy Thousand naira (N670,000) from Abdul Rahman Abubakar and Akwalo Adamu under the false pretence of securing them a job with the Nigerian Immigration Service which you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 1(1)(a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act 2006 and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act” it adds

Justice Ringing thereafter convicted and sentenced Bature, Philip and Mohammed to seven years imprisonment each or a fine of N50,000 (Fifty Thousand Naira) each.

The judge also order that the convicts pay a sin of N1,640,000 back to the petitioners, whilw also signing an undertaking to be of good behaviour henceforth.