By Justice O. A Adeniyi of the FCT High Court sitting in Apo, Abuja on Tuesday, June 20 convicted and sentenced one Micheal Ogun (popularly called Idris Suleiman, Ibrahim Bello) to 27 months in prison on a six-count charge of forgery and obtaining by false pretence, brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
Micheal allegedly poses as an officer of the Nigeria Customs Service and Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps and in that assumed capacity, defrauding innocent Nigerians of their hard-earned money, under the guise of securing them a job in the two agencies.
The job scam was reported to the EFCC by one Angela Chinwe after being duoed by the defendant. The judge sentenced Micheal to 3months each on counts one to five without an option of a fine and one year on count six.
Additionally, the convict is to refund the money fraudulently collected from all his victims.
