The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, secured the conviction and sentencing of Dije Sale to 34 years imprisonment.

Sale was sentenced before Justice Umaru Fadawu of the State High Court, Maiduguri for forgery, use of false document and obtaining under false pretence to the tune of N66 million.

The convict forged a “Purchase Order” and used same to defraud the nominal complainant of N66m under the guise of executing a purported contract awarded to her by FHI 360, a Non-Governmental Organisation.

The convict was arraigned on July 1, 2020 on a three-count charge but pleaded not “guilty to all the charges preferred against her.

During trial, prosecution counsel, Mukhtar Ali Ahmed called four witnesses and tendered several documents before the court that were admitted in evidence.

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Justice Fadawu, in his judgment said the prosecution had proved its case beyond reasonable doubt, “and the court is convinced that the defendant is guilty of all the three counts as charged.”

He convicted the defendant of all the counts and sentenced her to fourteen years on count one, ten years on count two and 10 years on count three.

He ordered that the sentencing be served concurrently.

Furthermore, the convict was ordered by the court to pay N54million to the nominal complainant in restitution and “if she defaults, the convict shall serve 10 years imprisonment which will run consecutively.”

paskal16:
Damn she is looking at 44years if she doesn’t pay up the 54million in restitution

Jestin:
The future is truly female

SouthWestBlood:
34 years? Lol. Probably offended some big boys.

sylve11:
Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief's....

alexxiswrites:
Even Ibori got a slap on the wrist in UK. Not saying crime is bad, but 34 years? As in no part of the money can be recouped?

LilMissRobbie:

You people have started. All the crimes perpetrated by the male gender isn't blamed on them because of their gender. How does this one have anything to do with women now? This joke is not even funny anymore

FreeIgboho:


Wrong! She is looking at 24 years if she doesn't pay.
She was sentenced to 14 years effectively. 10 years to be added if she doesn't pay. Learn to read sentencing stuff!

TodYamBeans:
Will will rot in jail

Crime doesn't pay

paskal16:
you’re a dunce she was sentenced to three different counts of charges 14 10 and 10
Didn’t you see furthermore?
Or you don’t know what furthermore mean
Or you’re just myopic?