Justice Peter Kekemeke of an FCT Excessive Court docket on Tuesday sentenced a faux investigator, Mohammed Momoh, to seven years imprisonment for duping Mrs Mario Al-Makura, spouse of the previous governor of Nasarawa State.
Kekemeke sentenced Momoh primarily based on the cost most popular in opposition to him by the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, EFCC, bordering on false pretences.
Momoh after his counsel, Godwin Omagbogu, pleaded on his behalf.
Omagbogu had pleaded for leniency on behalf of his consumer, saying he was a first-time offender and father to a few little youngsters and a younger spouse.
The prosecution counsel, Diana Nkwap, nevertheless, urged the court docket to make use of its discretion in sentencing the convict.
The decide held that the punishment underneath which the defendant is charged attracts 20 years imprisonment most and 7 years minimal.
Justice Kekemeke thereafter sentenced Momoh to seven years imprisonment.
The decide has earlier on February 27, 2024, convicted Momoh when he held that the prosecution proved its case past cheap doubt.
Momoh was arrested in December 2017 by operatives of the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee for trying to defraud Mairo Al makura.
The EFCC alleged that the suspect, whereas posing as a personal investigator from the “Villa*, approached the spouse of the Nasarawa governor with a proposal to assist cease a purported investigation of two accounts belonging to her husband.
The anti-graft company stated Momoh claimed that he got here throughout info relating to the 2 accounts in 2011.
The EFCC stated the defendant requested for N8 million however was provided N6 million. Not clear in regards to the proposal, the governor’s household contacted the EFCC and had been requested to play together with the defendant.
The defendant was arrested throughout a sting operation after he collected marked N2 million from Al Makura.
In line with the EFCC, the offence is opposite to Part 1(1)(a) and punishable underneath Part 1(3) of the Advance Payment Fraud and Different Fraud Associated Offences Act No. 14 of 2006.
