Court Sentences ‘Yahoo Boy’ To 3 Days Of Environmental Sanitation In Abuja

An FCT High Court, in Gwagwalada, Abuja on Wednesday sentenced a man, Victor Ademola to three days of non-custodial service for internet fraud.

Ademola was docked by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for creating a ding-tone application with the profile name Ethan John.

He pleaded guilty to the charge and begged the court for leniency.

Delivering judgment, Justice Aliyu Shafa, sentenced Ademola to three days of community service to clean the surroundings of the Sharia court from May 4 to May 6 from the hours of 10 am to 12 noon.

Shafa said the community service would be done under the supervision of the officer of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Gwagwalada command.

He also ordered the convict to pay a fine of N50,000.

He ordered that the phone used by the convict to perpetuate the crime be completely destroyed and evidence of the destruction should be brought before the court in order to reduce as against the application of the prosecution counsel that the phone be forfeited and sold.

“I have carefully listened to the plea of allocutus made by the said convict and the defence Counsel.

“The rate of fraud in the society so alarming and the convict cannot go scot-free. Cyber crime is a dangerous offence in our society,” he ruled.

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