oludashmi:

A Lagos High Court in Ikeja on Wednesday sentenced a 35-year-old hairdresser, Miss Mary Eze for fraud without an option of fine.

Justice Joseph Oyewole had found the accused guilty of conspiring with two others to defraud Miss Ogonna Ebubedike, between May and July 2005.

The judge also found her guilty on eight counts out of the 15-count charge levelled against her by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

He, therefore, sentenced Eze to five years on count one and 10 years each on counts 3, 5,7,9,11,13 and 15 respectively.

However, the sentences are to run concurrently and will begin from 2005 when she was first arrested and arraigned for the offence.

The development indicates that out of the 10 years which she will spend in prison, she has already spent five.

In his judgment, Justice Oyewole said, “The accepted testimony of Ebubedike that the defendant acting with one Ikechukwu Ogbu represented to her that they had United States dollars to clean with chemicals, a representation the defendant knew to be false and fraudulently obtained various sums of money from her.”


According to the EFCC, the action is contrary to Section 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud Related Offences Act, No. 13 of 1995 as amended by Act No.62 of 1999.
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RICHIE BOI:

this same judge again! this is the guy that sentenced olabode george former PDP chairman south-south to 2yrs imprisonment without an option of fine.

favouredjb:

As u sentence d small fry thieves like dis miss eze or whatever,d likes of igbenedion also should not be spared

oludashmi:

Look at you, they dont sentence such pple to prison and if they do, it is 3 years maximum but for those who steal maggi, begins from 5 years.

oludashmi:

[color=#000099]“The accepted testimony of Ebubedike that the defendant acting with one Ikechukwu Ogbu represented to her that they had United States dollars to clean with chemicals, a representation the defendant knew to be false and fraudulently obtained various sums of money from her.”

Skmoda-360:

I hate nigeria as a federal state due to negligency in corruption, aidin' and abetin' of our past leaders with the present ones who promote and encourage corruption in all ramifications and departments in nigeria.

alldone:

this will teach fraudstars a lesson.

What lesson if i may ask That the less you steal / defraud the more your sentence and the more you steal, the less your sentence

alkanes1:

If we calculate this well it means that people like Odili should serve 3000 years in jail

Aloy+Emeka:

The only fierce judge Nigeria has ever produced is being thrashed on Nairaland. You cannot compare crimes and it depends on how many charges the prosecutors brought against her. Also remember that Bode has money and can afford a good attorney who can pull strings and reduce his punishment. That is the legal system for you and I am sure that if the judge had his way, Bode would have gotten 300 years.