Metro/Crime
Nigerian Students Sentenced To Jail Over Love Scam
Justice Mahmood Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Thursday, convicted Ganiyy Rasaq Olarewaju, a 300 Level Student of University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) and Olakunle Adebisi, an ND II student of Kwara State Polytechnic.
The anti-graft has on Monday, June 28, 2021 arraigned Ganiyy and Adebisi on one count separate charge of love scam by the Ilorin Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to which they pleaded guilty.
In a separate judgment on the two cases today, Justice Abdulgafar, pronounced them guilty and sentenced them accordingly as Adebisi was sentenced to six months, Ganiyy bagged one-month imprisonment without option of fine for the two convicts. Their terms to be observed at Mandala Correctional Centre, Ilorin.
As ruled by the judge, Adebisi would commence serving his term after two years when he must have graduated from the Kwara State Polytechnic, while Ganiyy’s sentence would commence after one year when he must have finished his studies in the University of Ilorin.
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