Find the EFCC Press statement below
Justice P.I. Ajoku of the Federal High Court,
Benin, Edo State toady convicted and
sentenced one Emmanuel Sunday (alias Umoh
Sunday Iyang, Iyang Samuel Chukwudi) to
seven and half years imprisonment without
an option of fine for obtaining money under
false pretense.
The convict was arraigned by the Economic
and Financial crimes Commission, EFCC, on
March 19, 2014 on an 8-count charge
bordering on obtaining money by false
pretence. He pleaded not guilty to the count
charge.
After diligent prosecution, Justice Ajoku found
him guilty on the 5-count amended charge and
sentenced him to thirty months imprisonment each
of the counts. The court also ordered that the
convict forfeit his two (2) phones to the Federal
Government.
The journey to prison for Emmanuel started when
he was arrested in Benin on August 13, 2013 by
the Nigerian Army, 4 Brigade/sector 1, Operation
Pulo Shield, for posing as an Army Captain to
defraud one Igue Endurance of the sum of N1,
545,000.00 (One Million Five Hundred And Forty-
Five Thousand Naira) in the pretext that the said
amount be used to facilitate her recruitment into
the Nigerian Army.
One of the charges read, “That you Emmanuel
Sunday ( also known as Umoh Sunday, Inyang
Samuel Chukwudi) on or about May, 2013, at Benin
within the Jurisdiction of this honourable court,
with intent to defraud did represent yourself to
be a captain with the Nigerian Army and obtained
the sum of Three Hundred Thousand Naira only
(300,000.00) from one Igue Endurance, which said
money you used part of it and paid the sum of
Eighty Thousand Naira into your Diamond bank plc,
account 0001857059, under the pretence that the
said sum would be used to get Igue Endurance
recruited into Nigerian Army, a pretext which you
knew to be false and thereby committed an
offence contrary to section 1(1) (a) of the
Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences
Act 2006 and punishable under section 1(3) of the
same Act”.
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