A graduate of Lead City University,
Ibadan, who passed out with 1st-class honors has been sentenced to one-year
imprisonment after pleading guilty to a two-count charge of conspiracy and
obtaining money under false pretences. Olakunle Akanni was sentenced yesterday Nov. 4th at the Ikeja High Court in
Lagos for defrauding a 77 year-old American woman, Diana Huizenga, of over
12,000 dollars through an internet love scam. One of his accomplices, Adesina Akinsola, 30, was also given a
similar sentence by the judge but adjourned the sentencing of their co-accused,
30-year-old Dele Oshuntogun, till Nov. 17.
There are reports that the convicts
entered a plea bargain with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC). Lawal-Akapo consequently sentenced them to one year imprisonment on
each of the counts.
He said the sentences were to run
concurrently beginning from the day the judgment was delivered.
“The first defendant, Olakunle
Akanni, is to pay the sum of N2 million which is the equivalent of $12, 820 to
the victim (Huizenga), as restitution. Also, the third defendant, Akinsola, is
to pay the sum of N500, 000 to the victim as restitution,” the judge ordered.
He also ordered them to write an
undertaken to be submitted to the EFCC that they would be of good behaviour
upon their release from prison custody.
She said Olakunle Akanni falsely
presented himself to Huizenga as one Robert Lewis, a white American
living in Nigeria, who was in love with her.
According to her, "the convicts
used the “love scam” to fleece the woman and even invited her to come to
Nigeria with $90,000 before they were apprehended".
Mrs Zainab Ettuh said their offences
contravened Section 419 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Lagos State, 2003.
Source: NAN
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Enyinda Nathaniel Okey
he has disgraced his degree, his university,.. good news, however, he will obtain another First Class in prison criminology
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Endy Edeson
@EYINDA:
PRISON is meant for rehabilation. so he will be re-orientated in
prison, who knows, a good ICT company can even hire him since he is very
good on the internet. that will only happen if he vows never to go into
crime
Enyinda Nathaniel Okey
very
few people come out from prison, better. most of them get more
hardened... of course,, many graduate from prison as 'evangelists'
Enyinda Nathaniel Okey
if
everybody blames government and first class graduate also blames
govt,.,,if all the graduates blame govt... na d answer be dat? every
university needs a first class graduate for job