n undergraduate of Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, Mr Olasaidi Dare, got sentenced to five years imprisonment by the Federal High Court, yesterday after he was found guilty of attempting to obtain money under false pretence via the Internet.

Dare was apprehended by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, which traced him to a Cyber Cafe belonging to a former member of the National Assembly, Senator Olabode Ola, in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State.



According to the anti-graft agency, the convicted undergraduate, who was said to belong to a 419-syndicate, was arrested on March 31, 2008, at the said Cyber Cafe which is located inside a hotel, after he attempted to dupe an operative who posed as a wealthy foreigner.

He was arrested alongside the manager of the hotel who was said to have been convicted by the same court ab-initio.
Handing the 5-years jail term to Dare yesterday, trial Justice Lawal Shuaibu said his imprisonment should take effect from the date he was arrested.

Meanwhile, the erstwhile lawmaker, Senator Ola, is also standing trial before an Ekiti High Court over alleged illegal use of his premises for internet scam, otherwise known as “yahoo-yahoo”, as well as his failure to register his Cyber Cafe with all the regulatory agencies, including the EFCC.

The agency told the trial court that it had in an operation code-named “Cyberstorm-1”, raided illegal cyber cafes across the nation, which were believed to have accorded safe haven to internet fraudsters.

It said the operation which took place in March 2008, culminated in several arrests, saying most of the syndicates were caught in shoddy cyber cafes where they operated.



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Idiots in EFCC and Naija Judiciary!!! They are so quick to arrest and jail an undergraduate for attempting to obtain money....

What about those that have already stolen our monies and put us into this situation we find ourselves

stupid and useless EFCC and nigerian judiciary there are full of frauds when governors ministers and goverment officials empty state and federal funds no charges and arrest will made on them even if charges manage made on them court will dismiss it but when masses there put in poverty commit crimes they show there stupid arrest and long term imprisonment shame on EFCC ICPC and Nigeria judiciary

Where is bankole....where are all the corrupt officials like akala and gbenga daniels.....dis EFCC people are HIGH on fever