The Federal High Court in Sokoto, on Wednesday, sentenced a director with the Sokoto State Commodity Board, Hassan Bello, to seven years’ imprisonment for obtaining money through job scam.
But he ordered the convict to pay N850,000 restitution to the victims of fraud, according to a statement by the spokesperson of theEFCC said the convict fraudulently obtained about N1.3 million under the guise of offering non-existent employment to hapless job seekers.Following his guilty plea, the prosecuting counsel, S.H Sa’ad, urged the court to convict and sentence the defendant accordingly.
The charge of which he was convicted reads, “That you, Hassan Bello, Male, while being the Director AdministrationCommodity Board sometime in August 2021, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, with intent to defraud, did obtain the sum of One Million Three Hundred and Twenty Thousand Naira from one Aliyu Adamu Tsaki, Yusuf Abubakar, Yahaya Salihu Mohammed and others in the presence of one Dahiru Muhammad, when you falsely represented yourself to them that you will secure employment...
Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)
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