{"id":88957,"date":"2021-11-23T17:57:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T16:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=88957"},"modified":"2021-11-23T17:57:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T16:57:41","slug":"abuja-court-turns-down-efcc-plea-bargain-jails-corps-member-without-fine-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/abuja-court-turns-down-efcc-plea-bargain-jails-corps-member-without-fine-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Abuja court turns down EFCC plea bargain, jails corps member without fine option"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1717236035665171813\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Justice Inyang Eden Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday sentenced a member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Ajayi Temitope Ayokunle to two months imprisonment without option of fine.<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe 30-year-old corps member who posed as Dr. Joshua to defraud an American citizen, Maria, of $1000 dollars will in addition to his imprisonment forfeit a cash sum of $500 dollars found in his bank account and a sophisticated android telephone to the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Ekwo, who expressed utter disgust on the embarrassing rate of Cybercrime among Nigerian youths, turned down the plea bargain entered by the convict with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) wherein he confessed to committing the crime and requested for a soft landing of options of fines.<\/p>\n<p>At the Tuesday arraignment of the convict, the lawyer to EFCC, Mrs Dichi Gershom Umar drew the attention of Justice Ekwo to the plea bargain and urged him to convict the defendant with an option of fine, a request the Judge rejected instantly.<\/p>\n<p>The EFCC counsel said that the defendant had by the plea bargain confessed to committing the Cybercrime offence and agreed to forfeit the $500 dollars cash in his account and the android phone used to commit the crime to the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>However, Justice Ekwo, who was not comfortable with the terms of the plea bargain, subjected the convict to questioning while in the dock.<\/p>\n<p>The convict told the Judge that he read Political Science in one of Nigeria\u2019s universities and currently undergoing his one year mandatory service with the NYSC.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently not happy with the unremorseful attitude of the defendant, Justice Ekwo said the issue of options of fines will not happen in his court in order to serve as deterrent to other criminally minded youths.<\/p>\n<p>The judge subsequently ordered him to remain in prison for two months beginning from November 23.<\/p>\n<p>The charge marked FHC\/ABJ\/CR\/316\/2021 is contrary to section 22 (2) of the Cybercrime Prohibition, Prevention Act 2015.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Inyang Eden Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday sentenced a member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Ajayi Temitope Ayokunle to two months imprisonment&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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