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A Federal High Court in Abeokuta, Ogun State, presided over by Justice Mohammed Abubakar on Tuesday, February 16, 2021, convicted and sentenced two internet fraudsters, Ridwan Lekan Garuba and Agbabiaka Idris Adebayo to five months and four months in prison respectively.
The convicts had pleaded guilty to the separate one-count charge preferred against them by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ibadan zonal office.
The charges border on fraud and impersonation.
The charge against Garuba reads: “That you Ridwan Lekan Garuba(a.k.a. Jefferson Godwin) sometime in 2020, at Abeokuta, Ogun State, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with intent to defraud, impersonated one Jefferson Godwin, a citizen of the United States of America, by which you obtained benefits and gained an advantage from one Ruth Hodges Dennis, a female citizen of the United States of America, a pretext which you knew to be false and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section