A High Court of Justice sitting in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, has sentenced a 23-year-old man, Yusuf Salawu, to five years imprisonment for an
The offense is contrary to section 354 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Kogi State, 2017 and punishable under section 320 of the State’s penal code.
He said courts in Kogi State would not hesitate to apply the law on whoever has been satisfactorily proven to have committed any offense. Summary of the charge states in part that “between 2021 and 2022 and at Lokoja, within the judicial division of the court, the convict did knowingly had under his control, the gross sum of N56.3m in his Access Bank account with number 0798947121.”
The convict pleaded guilty to the charge read to him and admitted the commission of the offence, while confirming that the particular substance of the offence was true.
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