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Court sentences man to imprisonment for issuing dud cheque

JUSTICE Kudirat Jose of a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja yesterday sentenced a middle-aged businessman,  Sayyu Aliyu Zakari, to five years imprisonment for stealing 9,000 cartons of Dangote Spaghetti worth N18,180,000, property of Michelle Edmund Ventures.
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Delivering the judgment yesterday, Justice Jose found him guilty of stealing and issuancing a dud cheque by his company, Alrander limited. The judge sentenced Zakari to ‎five years imprisonment and ordered his company, Alrander Limited to pay a fine of N1 million.

‎The convict (Zakari) and his company, Alrander Limited was arraigned on August ‎13, 2013 on three count charge bordering on stealing and issuance of dud cheque brought by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

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