The Borno State High Court, Maiduguri, has sentenced Aisha Alkali Wakil, aka Mama Boko Haram, and two others, Tahiru Saidu Daura and Prince Lawal Soyade, to 10 years imprisonment each for a N40 million fraud.

The court, presided over by Justice Umaru Fadawu, found them guilty of two counts of conspiracy and obtaining by false pretence, brought against them by the EFCC.

The EFCC spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, said in a statement that the convicts, who were the CEO, Programme Manager, and Country Director of Complete Care and Aid Foundation, a NGO, along with Saidu Mukhtar, who is still at large, defrauded Bashir Abubakar, the CEO of Duty-Free Shop Ltd, of N40 million under the guise of supplying him five x-ray machines 1900 with solar energy.

Oyewale said that the offence violated Section 1(b) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006, and was punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.

The convicts denied the charges when they were read to them.

The prosecution counsel, A.I. Arogha, produced four witnesses and 17 exhibits before the court.

Justice Fadawu sentenced them to 10 years imprisonment each for both counts of conspiracy and obtaining by false pretence. He also ordered them to pay back N40 million to Bashir Muhammad, jointly and severally.

He said that the jail terms would run concurrently.

Oyewale stated: “The convicts’ journey to the correctional centre began when a petitioner alleged that they swindled him through a fake contract for the supply of five x-ray machines 1900 with solar energy to a NGO, Complete Care and Aid Foundation, worth N40m. They failed to deliver the machines or refund the money to the petitioner.”

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In case you wondering Mama Boko Haram was from the East.

why not 30 yrs