Sunday, June 16, 2024 -Justice 0.0. Abike-Fadipe of the Special Offences Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced the duo of Ugwu Pascal Chijioke and Ibrahim Sadia Adekunle to 46 years imprisonment for impersonating operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, while executing a fake court order.
A statement from the agency on
Saturday, June 15, said they were re-arraigned by the Lagos Zonal Command of
the EFCC on an amended five-count charge bordering on impersonation, attempt to
obtain property, possession of documents containing false pretence and
unlawfully wearing the uniform of the EFCC.
One of the counts reads;
"That you, Ugwu Pascal Chijioke and
Ibrahim Sadia Adekunle, on or about the 12th day of May 2021 in Lagos, within
the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, by false pretence and with intent to
defraud, attempted to obtain property from one Oriyomi Johnson under the
pretext that the "Chief Magistrate Court, Lagos State Judiciary, Mushin,
Lagos" issued an Order to the effect that the property located at New
Horizon Estate, Lekki- Ikate, Lagos be seized and the said apartment sealed
pending the arrival of the said Oriyomi Johnson, which representation you knew
to be false and committed an offence of attempt to obtain property by false
pretence contrary to Sections 8(b) of the Advanced Fee Fraud and Other Fraud
Related Offences Act, 2006 and punishable under Section11(3) of the same
Act."
Another count reads;
" That
you, Ugwu Pascal Chijioke and Ibrahim Sadiq Adekunle, on or about the 12th day
of May 2021 in Lagos, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court not
being a person holding any office in or authority of the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission, wore a jacket bearing the official mark of the Commission,
which was calculated to convey the impression that you held such authority and
committed an offence of unlawfully wearing the uniform of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission contrary to Section 79(1) (b) of the Criminal Law
of Lagos State, 2011."
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