Aisha Wakil, also known as “Mama Boko Haram,” Tahiru Daura, and Lawal Soyade have been convicted and sentenced to ten years of imprisonment by Justice Umaru Fadawu of the Borno State High Court, sitting in Maiduguri.
They were found guilty of falsely obtaining N15m from Bukar Kachalla of Hamiza Global Resources Limited by pretending to supply three units of Chemistry Analyser Solar Energy Brand Model 1800 (UK version), which is a violation of Section 1(1) (b) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006.
The EFCC Maiduguri Zonal Command had earlier secured a conviction against Wakil and her accomplices for conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretenses.
Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court had sentenced Wakil and her accomplices to seven years in prison.
On March 5, 2020, the Maiduguri Zonal Command of the EFCC arraigned the defendants on a two-count charge of conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretenses to the tune of N40m.
Count two of the charge reads that Aisha Alkali Wakil, Tahiru Alhaji Saidu Daura, and Prince Lawal Soyade, who were the CEO, programme manager, and country director, respectively, of Complete Care and Aid Foundation, a non-governmental organization, and Saidu Mukhtar (at large) obtained the sum of N40m from Bashir Abubakar, the CEO of Duty-Free Shop Ltd by falsely claiming to execute a supposed contract for the supply of five X-ray Machines 1900 with Solar Energy, which they knew was false.
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This act is a violation of Section (1) 1 (b) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006, and punishable under Section 1(3) of the same Act.
The defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges, but the prosecution counsel, A. I Arogha, presented four witnesses and tendered 17 exhibits before the court.
Justice Fadawu convicted and sentenced them to ten years in jail for conspiracy and ten years for obtaining money by false pretenses.
The court also ordered them to jointly and severally pay the sum of N40m to Bashir Muhammad and that the prison term shall run concurrently on the expiration of all prison terms imposed on the convicts by any court.
The defendants were accused of swindling a petitioner through a supposed contract to supply five X-ray Machines 1900 with Solar Energy to a non-governmental organization, Complete Care and Aid Foundation, worth N40m.
They neither supplied the machines nor returned the contract sum to the petitioner.
