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The Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arraigned a serving corps member at the Jigawa State House of Assembly, Nazim Usman Gomna and a 400Level student of AL-Hikmah University, Ilorin, Idris Shuaibu Suleiman, over offences bordering on theft to the tune of N9.1million.
Nasim and Idris were arraigned on a 3-count charge of conspiracy and theft before Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin.
A statement by EFCC Head of Media & Publicity, Wilson Uwujaren says that the
two defendants allegedly conspired to hack into the website of the AL-Hikmah University and diverted students’ school fees to the tune N9.1million.
Nazim, who graduated as a Computer Scientist at the AL-Hikmah University, Ilorin, and currently serving his fatherland at Jigawa State House of Assembly allegedly connived with Idris to hack the university’s website using the Idris account details to be collecting tuition fees illegally from students.
The defendants pleaded not guilty to the three counts.
Consequently, counsel to the EFCC, Sesan Ola, asked the court for a date to commence trial and an order to remand the defendants in prison custody.
However, in separate applications counsels representing the two accused, A.T Kamaldeen and Ismail Mustapha urged the court to admit their clients to bail pending trial and determination of the case.
Justice Oyinloye in a bench ruling admitted the defendants to bail in the sum of N3.5million each with one surety in like sum.
Justice Oyinloye maintained that the surety must be resident within the jurisdiction of the court and must provide the telephone contacts, residential address, recent passport photographs to the court.
The judge also ordered the defendants to submit their travel documents to the court and ordered them not to travel without the permission pending determination of the case.
He further ordered the defendants to attend all court proceedings while the trial lasts or have their bail terms revoked.
In another development, the EFCC also secured the conviction of one Mohammed Abdulwahab Kelvin, who pleaded guilty to a 3-count charge of romance scam preferred against him by the anti-graft agency.
In his judgement, Justice Oyinloye opined that from the evidence before the court, the defendant engaged in online romance scam, noting that, the defendant did not testify even when he had the opportunity to do so.
The judge after due evaluation of the evidence placed before the court and the allocutos by the defence counsel, sentenced Mohammed to six months imprisonment on each of the counts with an option of fine Fifty Thousand Naira on each count.
The Judge further ordered that the phone and laptop used to perpetrate the crime be forfeited to the Federal Government.
PR/EFCC
