Court convicts ‘fake’ EFCC employee, another in Kwara

Justice I.O. Musa of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court sitting in Abuja has sentenced one Mr. Akeem Oluwafemi Akanni to a one-month imprisonment with an option of N20,000 fine.

The accused had “falsely” presented himself as an official of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to a staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Abdullahi Idris, in Kaduna to allegedly defraud the latter of N300,000 to assist him “kill a case filed against him.”

Besides, the Ilorin zonal office of the commission has convicted one Joseph Oyediran, indicted by the Federal Bureau of Investigations in the United States of America.

Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of a Kwara State High Court yesterday jailed him one-year
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