A serving National Youth Service Corps member, Ajayi Ayokunle, has been sentenced to forty days imprisonment over fraud conviction.
Ajayi Ayokunle was pronounced guilty as charge by Justice Inyang Ekwo of a Federal High Court in Abuja following his plea bargains application.
The convict a Political Science graduate was arraigned for impersonation as a doctor to defraud an American lady, identified only as Maria, the sum of $1,000.
Justice Ekwo, who expressed disgust at the embarrassing rate of cybercrime among the youth, turned down the plea bargain entered by the convict with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission wherein he confessed to committing the crime and requested fine options.
During his arraignment, counsel for the EFCC, Dichi Umar, drew the attention of the court to the plea bargain application.
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Umar urged the court to convict the defendant with the option of a fine.
The EFCC counsel said the defendant had, by the plea bargain, agreed to forfeit the $500 in his bank account and the phone used to commit the crime.
However, Justice Ekwo, who was not comfortable with the terms of the plea bargain, subjected the convict to questioning while he was in the dock.
Justice Ekwo said the issue of fines would not happen in his court in order to serve as a deterrent to other criminally-minded youths.
The judge subsequently ordered him to remain in prison for two months beginning from Tuesday, November 23.
And to forfeit to the Federal Government a cash sum of $500 found in his bank account and a “sophisticated Android telephone.”
