Friday, May 24, 2024 - Justice Oyindamola Ogala of an Ikeja High Court has sentenced one Sharafadeen Irorun to 10 years imprisonment for scamming Muslim pilgrims of N7.5 million.
Irorun was in April, arraigned before the
court and was found guilty on four out of a 12-count charge of obtaining by
false pretence and stealing brought against him by the Lagos State Government.
The trial judge held that the prosecution
had established that the defendant and others who are at large are a criminal
group and convicted Irorun on counts 1, 2, 5 and 6.
The presiding judge at his
conviction, said
“The defendant and others who are at large,
are a criminal group who unwittingly dispossessed innocent persons of their
money under the pretext of helping them undergo the Hajj pilgrimage.”
The judge convicted him on Section
312, 285 (9) (b) of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State 2011. However, while
sentencing the convict on Thursday, May 23, the judge held that the convict
obtained by false presence and stealing.
She, therefore, sentenced him to 10
years’ imprisonment and ordered that the prison term should commence from June
6, 2022.
During the trial, the prosecution counsel,
Mr O. A. Azeez, called three witnesses including one of the nominal
complainants who contributed the money which the third prosecution witness
(PW3), Alhaji Lukman Abdulkareem, gave to the defendant.
The judge found that the PW1 and PW2
had no direct involvement with the defendant but supported the evidence of the
PW3 who was involved with the defendant and whose evidence she called “succinct
and direct.”
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