A total of five cybercriminals, also known as “Yahoo Boys” have bagged various jail terms after they were found guilty for fraudulent impersonation, contrary to Section 484 of the Criminal Code Law, Cap 38, Laws of Oyo State.
Justice Uche Agomoh of the Federal High Court and Justice Bayo Taiwo of the State High Court, both sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State found them guilty, convicted and sentenced them to prison on Monday, on one count charge each which bordered on fraudulent impersonation.
The convicts were also ordered by the court to restitute various sums of money and forfeit to the federal government, their instruments of crime.
Their conviction was secured by the Ibadan Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
A statement issued on Tuesday by the EFCC Spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, gave the names of the convicts as: Shelter Chibundo Ogadi, Oluwole Ezekiel Odueso, Subair Rasaq Olashina Olajide, Usman Adams Abdullahi and Omolade Salam Balogun.
They all pleaded “guilty” to the charges preferred against them by the EFCC.
Upon their pleas, prosecution counsel reviewed the facts of the cases and urged the courts to convict and sentence them as charged.
Consequently, Justices Agomoh and Taiwo convicted and sentenced them.
Shelter Chibund Ogadi was sentenced to one year imprisonment, Oluwole Ezekiel Odueso nine months imprisonment while Subair Rasaq Olashina Olajide Olajide bagged four months jail term.
Usman Adams Abdullahi and Omolade Salam Balogun were sentenced to six months community service each.
Also, the court ordered the convicts restitute $2, 330USD (Two Thousand, Three Hundred and Thirty-Three United States Dollars), N475, 000.00 (Four Hundred and Seventy-Five Thousand Naira), and forfeit eight exotic mobile phones and one laptop to the Federal Government of Nigeria.
