Justice Darius Khobo of the Kaduna State High Court sitting in Kaduna, has convicted and sentenced two fraudsters to six years imprisonment for impersonation and cybercrimes.
The convicts: Mmadubionwu Tochukwu Kingsley and Samuel Ngode Wobin were jailed on Monday, May 16, 2022, after pleading guilty to one-count separate charge bordering on impersonation, upon their arraignment by the Kaduna Zonal Command of the, EFCC.
Kingsley (m) sometime in April, 2022 at Kaduna in an attempt to commit fraud falsely presented himself as one Gerald Keith, a white man and an entrepreneur on instagram App (a social media online network), and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 142 (1) of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law, 2017.
Wobin (m), sometime in April, 2022 at Kaduna in an attempt to commit fraud falsely presented himself as one Thomas Broussard; an American military personnel stationed in El Segundo, Los Angeles, California to Jessica R. Brownskin, when and thereby committed an offence contrary to and punishable under Section 142(1) of the Kaduna State Penal Code Law, 2017.
They both pleaded guilty to the charge when it was read to them individually.
