A Federal High Court sitting in Benin City, Edo State,
on Friday sentenced one Emmanuel Sunday alias
Umoh Sunday Iyang, Iyang Samuel Chukwudi to seven
and half years imprisonment without option of fine for
obtaining money under false pretense.
The convict was arraigned by the Economic and
Financial crimes Commission, EFCC, on March 19,
2014 on an 8-count charge bordering on obtaining
money by false pretense. He pleaded not guilty to the
count charge.
After diligent prosecution, the trial judge, Justice P.I.
Ajoku found him guilty on the 5-count amended charge
and sentenced him to thirty months imprisonment each
of the counts.
The court also ordered that the convict forfeit his two
(2) phones to the Federal Government.
A statement by the Head, Media and Publicity of the
EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, revealed that Emmanuel was
first arrested in Benin on August 13, 2013 by the
Nigerian Army, 4 Brigade/sector 1, Operation Pulo
Shield, for posing as an Army Captain to defraud one
Igue Endurance of the sum of N1, 545,000.00 (One
Million Five Hundred And Forty- Five Thousand Naira)
in the pretext that he would use the said amount to
facilitate her recruitment into the Nigerian Army.
One of the charges read, “That you Emmanuel Sunday
( also known as Umoh Sunday, Inyang Samuel
Chukwudi) on or about May, 2013, at Benin within the
Jurisdiction of this honourable court, with intent to
defraud did represent yourself to be a captain with the
Nigerian Army and obtained the sum of Three Hundred
Thousand Naira only(300,000.00) from one Igue
Endurance, which said money you used part of it and
paid the sum of Eighty Thousand Naira into your
Diamond bank plc, account 0001857059, under the
pretence that the said sum would be used to get Igue
Endurance recruited into Nigerian Army, a pretext
which you knew to be false and thereby committed an
offence contrary to section 1(1) (a) of the Advance Fee
Fraud and Other Related Offences Act 2006 and
punishable under section 1(3) of the same Act”.
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