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(AFRICAN EXAMINER) – A Federal High Court sitting in Enugu, South- East Nigeria, presided over by Justice Rosemary Dugbo Oghoghorie has convicted and sentenced one Mr. Okoro Tochukwu Joseph to eight months imprisonment for impersonation and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of $15,000 (Fifteen Thousand US Dollars).
The convict, who is a final year student of the Institute of Management Technology, (IMT) Enugu was prosecuted by the Enugu Zonal Office of the anti-graft agency.
One of the five-count charges against him read:
“That you, Okoro Tochukwu Joseph (alias Donald Wood), on the 11th day of March, 2020, in Enugu, Enugu State, within the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court of Nigeria, while representing yourself to be Donald Wood, a financial investor in crypto currency, by means of a computer system, knowingly sent a message through your Hangout, knowing the same to be false, for the purpose of causing needless anxiety to Lisa Spiller and there