Man Bags One Jail Term For Term For Defrauding Pastor
An Osun State Magistrate court on Tuesday sentenced 46-year-old Olusegun Emmanuel to One year imprisonment for swindling two men under the pretence of helping them to procure international passport and travel documents.
NSCDC prosecutor, S.B Basambo accused Emmanuel of fraudulently and trickily collecting the sum of four hundred and seventy thousand naira from the duo of Olowofela Adebayo and Pastor Babatunde Emmanuel after promising to secure passports and visa for them.
The Prosecutor argued that the offence is contrary to and punishable under section 421 of the Criminal Code CAP 34 Vol.2 of the Laws of Osun State of Nigeria.
Emmanuel was said to have failed to fulfil his promise to the victims. It was revealed in court that the accused person committed the offence in 2014 in Osogbo.
In his judgement, Magistrate Ade Badmus noted that the court was convinced by evidences before it that Emmanuel actually committed the offence and sentenced him to one year imprisonment without option of fine to serve as deterrent to others.
