By Correspondent in Ilorin
Justice Adenike Akinpelu of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin, has sentenced a corps member serving in Ibadan, Oyo State, Oyeyemi Caleb to two years improvement on a two-count charge bordering on sex scam.
The Reporters recalls that the two-year count charge was preferred against the convict by the Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC).
Delivering judgment on the matter on Monday, the justice said the convict would serve one year imprisonment on each of the counts concurrently.
The Judge said, “The plea of guilt entered by the defendant was a total admission to the crime”.
She, thereafter, pronounced Oyeyemi guilty of the charge and accordingly sentenced him.
The judge ordered that his phones and the manager cheque (Bank draft) of N80,000, which he brought to the EFCC office, be forfeited to the Federal Government.
She, however gave him an option fine of N200,000 on each count.
The online publication recalls that Oyeyemi, 21, a native of Odo-Owa in Oke-Ero Local Government Area of Kwara State, was arrested on March 16, 2020 by operatives of the EFCC, based on intelligence reports.
According to the EFCC report, Oyeyemi allegedly posed as a white lady and an online prostitute to scam one Wilson (a white man) to the tune of $100 US Dollars in order to offer him sex.
He confessed to the crime and was arraigned in court on November 26, 2020.
The charge reads:
“That you, Oyeyemi Caleb, sometime in January, 2020 or thereabout at Ilorin, Kwara State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, dishonestly induced one Wilson, a white Man to send you 100 US Dollars.
” This you did when you knowingly pretended and represented yourself to be a white lady, an online prostitute, who was ready to have sex with him for money which representation you knew to be false as it is contained in your gmail account, caychatty414@gamial.com.
“You thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 321 and punishable under Section 324 of the Penal Code Laws of Northern Nigeria.”
He pleaded guilty when the counts were read to him.
Upon his plea, the counsel to the EFCC, Aliyu Adebayo led one Jideofor Osaji , an operative of the Commission to review the facts of the case.
Osaji narrated how the defendant was arrested somewhere around Akerebiata area of Ilorin.
He said three different types of phones were recovered from him and tendered several fraudulent documents printed out from his email addresses, which were admitted in evidence.
Adebayo urged the court to convict the defendant as charged based on his plea and the evidence placed before it.
