Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court in Maiduguri sentenced Aisha Wakil, also known as Mama Boko Haram, and two others to five years in prison each on Thursday.
This information was revealed by Dele Oyewale, Head of Media & Publicity for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Monday.
Wakil, the Chief Executive Officer of the Complete Care and Aid Foundation (an NGO), along with Programme Manager Tahiru Saidu Daura and Country Director Prince Lawal Shoyode, was re-arraigned on Monday.
They faced four amended charges related to cheating, conspiracy, and providing false information involving N6 million.
Count two of the charge reads: “That you, Aisha Alkali Wakil, Tahiru Saidu Daura and Prince Lawal Shoyade whilst being Chief Executive Officer, Programme Manager and Country Director respectively of Complete Care and Aid Foundation (Non-Governmental Organisation) sometime between October and November 2018 at Maiduguri, Borno State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, dishonestly induced one Alhaji Bukar Kachalla of Abks Ventures Limited to deliver to you a Toyota Camry 2012 Model worth N6,000,000.00 (Six Million Naira) only under the guise of executing a contract for the purchase of the said car and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 320 (a) and punishable under Section 322 of the Penal Code Cap 102 Laws of Borno State.”
The defendants pleaded “not guilty” to the charges prepared against them by the EFCC.
During the trial, counsel for the prosecution, Mukhtar Ahmed and Shamsudeeb Saka presented three witnesses and tendered several documents as exhibits before the court in proof of EFCC’s case against the defendants.
Justice Kumaliya, thereafter, convicted and sentenced the defendants to five years imprisonment without an option of fine each.
The Judge further ordered the defendants to jointly and severally restitute the balance of N3.5m to the petitioner or in default, serve an additional five years jail term each.
The convicts bagged their imprisonment when they were arrested and prosecuted for taking from a petitioner a Toyota Camry 2012 model worth N6 million under the guise of purchasing the said car. They neither purchased the car nor returned it to the petitioner, the EFCC said.