Nigerian undergraduate jailed for Internet fraud
Mr Ayomide’s road to jail began when the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, investigated his alleged involvement in internet fraud. The 22-year-old accounting undergraduate of the Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, was charged with one-count bordering on cybercrime.
The charge reads: “That you, Ojo Olarewaju Ayomide, sometime in 2019 at Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State impersonates Scot, a Civil Engineer based in Miami, Florida, USA with intent to gain advantage for himself and thereby committed an offence contrary to section 22of the Cybercrimes Prohibition Act 2015 and punishable under section 22 of the same law.
Defence counsel, Charles Abalaka, raised no objections, and pleaded with the court to temper justice with mercy.In convicting him, the trial judge gave him an option of fine of N200,000 , ordered him to “depose to an affidavit of undertaking to be of good behaviour”, and ruled that all items recovered from him, including a Samsung Galaxy S9, should be forfeited to the federal government.
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