A woman, Hadiza Bello, and three other accomplices have been sentenced to 160 years in prison by a Federal High Court, sitting in Yola, Adamawa State, for dealing in fake naira notes.
The convicts were dragged before the court by the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission, after they were caught at a checkpoint along Girei-Yola Road.
The statement said, “A Federal High Court sitting in Yola, Adamawa State, has sentenced four persons, including a woman, to 160 years’ imprisonment on a multiple-count charge of conspiracy and possession of counterfeit bank notes. “Three of the convicts, Hadiza Bello, Mohammed Dauda and Bello Salisu, had in March 2017, left Kaduna and were joined by the fourth convict, Ali Adamu, from Kano, to meet a native doctor, Hassan Bello, who was a counterfeiter at Wamdeo Uba, Borno State, with the intention to procure about N5m counterfeit bank notes to exchange for about N1m genuine bank notes from a customs officer.
The anti-graft body said investigation launched by its officers led to the residence of the native doctor at Wamdeo Uba, where he was arrested.“A search conducted on the premises revealed more counterfeit N1000 bank notes reading the same serial number to the value of N26,000.
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