The 3 undergraduate students convicted
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Wed Jul 28 2021
Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Tuesday convicted and sentenced three undergraduate students to various jail terms.
The convicts were dragged to court by the Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over offences bordering on love scam and internet fraud.
They are Abubakar Abdulbasit Opeyemi, a final year Student of the University of Ilorin, Alimi Abiodun and Idowu Rasaq Olarewaju, who are students of the Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, and Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, respectively.
The three convicts pleaded guilty to the charges preferred against them during the trial that lasted several hours.
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Afolayan who hails from Share in Ifelodun LGA of the state was arraigned on March 14, 2019, on a four-count by the Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), where he pleaded not guilty.
On Thursday, Afolayan’s counsel, S. O Ishola, urged the court to temper justice with mercy, saying, “He is a first time offender.”
But EFCC’s counsel, Andrew Akoja, drew the attention of the court to Section 1(a) and 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other fraud related offences Act, 2006, which prescribes a maximum of seven years imprisonment for the offence for which the defendant was charged on counts one and two.
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