A 20-year-old identified as Udoh Sunday Okon has been sentenced to one-year imprisonment for defrauding an American, Kimberly, to the tune of $500 on Facebook.

The Ilorin Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Wednesday, August 25, secured the conviction of Udoh for offenses bordering on Facebook lottery scam.

Udoh, an undergraduate, allegedly defrauded an American, Kimberly, to the tune of $500USD via Facebook lottery.

The 20-year-old Akwa Ibom indigene was prosecuted on one-count charge, to which he pleaded guilty.

The charge reads:

“That you, Udoh Sunday Okon (Christopher Wray) sometime in March 2021 at Ilorin, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did cheat by personation when you pretended to be one Christopher Wray a white male with +18315088635 as your WhatsApp business line and fraudulently deceived Kimberly, an American, to send $500.00 ( Five Hundred United States Dollars) worth of Ebay gift card to you after you made him believe that he won $1,000,000.00 (One Million Dollars) Facebook Lottery and you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 321 of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 324 of the Penal Code.”

Following his plea, Sesan Ola, counsel to the EFCC, urged the court to convict the defendant and sentence him based on his plea and the evidence tendered before the court.
Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court, Ilorin pronounced the defendant guilty of the offence and sentenced him to a term of one year in prison.
The judge, however, gave the convict an option of fine of N200, 000 (Two Hundred Thousand Naira Only).
In addition, the court ordered the forfeiture of N206, 000 draft raised as restitution by the convict and the iPhone which he used in perpetrating the crime to the Federal Government.

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has declared that Tuesday’s attack on the Nigerian Defence Academy facility by the infamous Bandits, will only buoy the country’s military action to totally eliminate insecurity in the country.

Buhari said the morale of our Armed Forces will not dampen as it is intended to, instead it will speed up their determination to make a decisive end to the criminality besetting the nation.

In a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, Wednesday, August 25, the president noted that the attack, which led to the loss of lives, came at a time that the military had put insurgents, bandits, kidnappers, and other types of criminals on the retreat.

Femi Adesina’s post reads ;

ATTACK ON NDA WON’T DAMPEN RESOLVE OF OUR MILITARY TO BRING DECISIVE END TO CRIMINALITY, PRESIDENT BUHARI VOWS
The attack launched on the facility of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) on Tuesday, rather than throw a dampener into the morale of our Armed Forces as it is intended to, will buoy their determination to make a decisive end of criminality in the country, President Muhammadu Buhari has said.

Noting that the attack, which led to loss of lives, came at a time that the military had put insurgents, bandits, kidnappers, and other types of criminals on the retreat, the President says the heinous action would accelerate the total uprooting of evil in the polity, which members of the Armed Forces are solidly resolved to accomplish in the shortest possible time.

Commiserating with the families who lost their loved ones, and praying God to comfort them, President Buhari vowed that the deceased would not die in vain, as the degenerate act would have consequences that will eventually clean the country of vermin, and emancipate the polity from deliberate, targeted and contrived atrocious acts.

The President thanks all Nigerians who value and appreciate the efforts of our military, and urges those playing hateful politics with the dastardly act to desist, noting that rather than recriminations, this is the time for all patriots and people of goodwill to support and encourage those who are in the vanguard of the battle against wickedness in the land.
Femi Adesina
Special Adviser to the President
(Media and Publicity)
August 25, 2021

On Tuesday, August 24, bandits invaded the permanent site of the Nigerian Defence Academy in Kaduna State, killing two officers and abducting one other officer who was later found dead.

One of the two army officers k*lled when bandits a*tacked the Nigerian Defence Academy in Kaduna, has been identified as Flight Lieutenant Chinecherem Okoronkwo.

According to reports, Chinecherem Okoronkwo, who was the Head of Department, Department of Laboratory Services, NDA Kaduna, was expecting his first child with his wife after four years of marriage, before the unfortunate incident that claimed his life.