The Economic and Financial Crimes Commisson has secured the conviction of Aisha Alkali Wakil, also known as Mama Boko-haram and two others.
They were sentenced to five years imprisonment by Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri over N6 million fraud without an option of fine.
In a statement by the Spokesperson of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Dele Oyewale on Monday, Wakil was convicted and sentenced on Thursday, November 28, 2024.
He said Wakil who is the Chief Executive Officer, CEO of Complete Care and Aid Foundation, NGO, alongside Programme Manager Tahiru Saidu Daura and Country Director, Prince Lawal Shoyode were re-arraigned on Monday, September 1, 2020, on four-count amended charges bordering on cheating, conspiracy and giving false information to the tune of N6m.
The court ruled that the trio dishonestly induced one Bukar Kachalla of Abks Ventures Limited to deliver to them a Toyota Camry 2012 Model worth N6,000,000.00 (Six Million Naira) only under the guise of executing a contract for the purchase of the said car.
The defendants pleaded “not guilty” to the charges preffered against them by the EFCC.
During the trial, counsel for the prosecution, Mukhtar Ali Ahmed and Shamsudeeb Olayinka Saka presented three witnesses and tendered several documents as exhibits before the court in proof of EFCC’s case against the defendants.
The Judge further ordered the defendants to jointly and severally restitute the balance of N3.5m to the petitioner or in default, serve an additional five years jail term each.
He said the convicts bagged their imprisonment when they were arrested and prosecuted for taking from a petitioner a Toyota Camry 2012 model worth N6,000,000.00 (Six Million Naira) under the guise of purchasing the said car. They neither purchased the car nor returned it to the petitioner.
