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A Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Thursday sentenced a member of the National Youth Service Corps, Sam Abiola, and one Adebiyi Sodiq, to various terms of imprisonment for attempted cheating and engaging in a love scam.
The duo, who were arrested during a raid in September 2020 at a school in Offa, Kwara State, were arraigned last Monday before the court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Abiola, 26, currently serving in Kogi State, and Sodiq, 18, were arraigned on separate charges.
While one count charge was preferred against Abiola, Sodiq was prosecuted on four counts.
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February 12, 2021
A Kwara High Court, sitting in Ilorin on Thursday, has convicted a serving corps member in Kogi, Sam Abiola, over offences bordering on attempted cheating and love scam.
Convicted along with Abiola was one Sodiq Adebiyi.
The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had on February 1 arraigned the convicts, Abiola, 26 and Adebiyi, 18, on separate charges.
While the one-count charge was preferred against Abiola, Adebiyi was prosecuted on a four-count charge, which the EFCC said was contrary to 321 of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 324 of the same law.
They both pleaded guilty to the charges.
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A serving corps member in Kogi, Sam Abiola, and one Adebiyi Sodiq, were on Monday arraigned before a Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin, on separate charges bordering on love scam.
The Ilorin Zonal office of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), arraigned Abiola on one count charge, while four counts were preferred against Sodiq.
The two accused persons pleaded guilty to the charge filed against them.
The Presiding Judge, Justice Adenike Akinpelu fixed Feb. 11, for judgment.
The charge against Abiola reads: “That you, Sam Abiola (Missie Bonie) sometime between July and September 2019, cheated by personation, when you pretended to be one Missie Bonie.
Corps Member Who Pretended To Be White Female, Made Man Fall In Love, Arrested
Corps Member Who Pretended To Be White Female, Made Man Fall In Love, Arrested
The Ilorin Zonal Office of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, arraigned a serving corps member, Sam Abiola and one Adebiyi Sodiq on separate charges bordering on love scam before Justice Adenike Akinpelu of a Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin.
Abiola, who is currently serving in Kogi State was arraigned on one count charge, while four counts were preferred against Sodiq, to which they pleaded ‘guilty’.
The charge against Abiola reads: “That you, Sam Abiola ( Missie Bonie) sometime between July, 2019 and September, 2019 in Ilorin within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did cheat by personation when you pretended to be one Missie Bonie a white female with gmail account, missiebo271@gmail.com, and fraudulently deceived one Rick to send $550 (Five Hundred and Fifty Dollars) to you th