Six Nigerian undergraduates found with ‘U.S. security’ documents convicted
A Federal High Court judge in Abuja on Friday convicted six undergraduates for internet related offences.Others are Nuhu Usman, Ademoyegu Samson and Adunmo Sesan.
Ms Maha convicted and sentenced them to varying terms ranging from three to six months imprisonment, with option of fines N300,000, after they pleaded guilty to all the charges preferred against them by theWhile sentencing the convicts, the judge ordered them to forfeit some of the items which include, laptops, phones among others recovered from them during investigations to the Federal Government.
Ms Maha also ordered the convicts to sign an undertaking to be of good behaviour and never to be involved in EFCC or any other form of fraud within and outside the country, adding that failure to comply will attract judicial sanctions.Earlier, the EFCC prosecution counsel, George Chia-Yakua, informed the court that in June, the convicts were in possession of document of Scanned FBI Logos and U.S. Naval Seal.The anti-graft agency also said the convicts were caught with documents labelled U.S.
Mr Yakua said the offence contravened the provisions of Sections 33 of the Cybercrime Prohibition & Prevention Act, 2015 and section 6 of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006. However, due to the plea bargain agreements separately entered between them and the EFCC, the original charges were replaced with the amended charges as presented before the court on Friday. (
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