Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court, sitting in Ilorin on Tuesday, March 18, 2025, convicted and sentenced one Olowookere Temitope to six months imprisonment for internet fraud.
The convict was prosecuted by the Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC on a one-count charge that bordered on cheating by personation.
The charges read: “That you, Olowookere Temitope, sometime between 2023 and 2024 in Offa, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, did cheat by impersonation when you pretended to be unsypathisch, a verified streaming app, and in that guise induced one psychological wolf, via your discord account on twitch to send you the sum of $400 (Four Hundred Dollars) which you did receive via Gift Cards and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 321 of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 324 of the same Penal Code.”
He pleaded “guilty” to the charge following which prosecution counsel, Innocent Mbachie reviewed the facts of the case, tendered the convict’s extra-judicial statements in evidence, including the sum of $300 (Three Hundred United States Dollars) recovered from him and prayed the court to convict and sentence him as charged.
Convinced that the prosecution has proven its case beyond reasonable doubt, Justice Abdulgafar sentenced Olowookere to six six-month suspended jail term and ordered that the sum of $300 (Three Hundred United States Dollars) recovered from him be forfeited to the federal government.
