By Lukman Olabiyi
Justice Akintayo Aluko of the Federal High Court, Lagos has convicted and sentenced a job scammer, Emeka Anaga, to a total of 404 years imprisonment for fraud.
Justice Aluko gave the verdict via zoom, on Wednesday, while delivering judgment in a separate-charge filed against the convict by the Abakaliki Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The convict was brought before Abakaliki, Ebonyi State Division of the Federal High Court, in 2018 and 2019, where Justice Aluko was formerly sitting on charges marked FHC/AI/8c/2019 and FHC/AI/62c/2018, on a 39 and six-count charges, respectively.
In the charges, the convict and one Barrister Ken, said to be at large, were accused of introducing themselves to their victims as a staff of Etisalat Telecommunications Limited, now 9 Mobile, and that he was capable of securing them contracts to supply fuel to all telecommunication companies.
The convict was accused of fraudulently obtaining various sums, amounting to N37, 805 million, from one Innocent Nwachukwu, Managing Director of IB. Nwachukwu Enterprises, under false pretence of securing a contract for him to install mast and fuel, same at different locations in the country.
He was also accused of forging MTN’s Identity card. In the two charges, the convict was alleged to have defrauded his victims of various sums running into millions of naira.
The prosecutor, Rotimi Ajobiewe, had told the court that the offences committed by the convict,…
