Aisha Alkali Wakil, popularly known as Mama Boko Haram, has been found guilty of a N6 million fraud and given a five-year prison sentence by Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court in Maiduguri.
Two other defendants were also sentenced, alongside her.
This was disclosed in a statement signed by Dele Oyewale, Head, Media and Publicity of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) on Monday.
The statement says that the accused persons were detained and charged with stealing a N6million Toyota Camry 2012 model from a petitioner while pretending to buy the vehicle. They didn’t buy the car or give it back to the petitioner.
Wakil, the chief executive officer of Complete Care and Aid Foundation, along with Tahiru Saidu, programme manager, and Lawal Ahoyode, country director, were rearrested on September 1, 2020, on a four-count amended charge of cheating, conspiracy and providing false information.
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They were further alleged to have induced one Alhaji Bukar Kachalla of Abks Ventures Limited to deliver the said vehicle only under the guise of executing a contract for the purchase of the said car and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 320 (a) and punishable under Section 322 of the Penal Code s of Borno State.
However, the defendants entered a not guilty plea to the accusations that the EFCC had brought against them.
In order to support the EFCC’s case against the defendants, the prosecution’s solicitors, Mukhtar Ali Ahmed and Shamsudeeb Olayinka Saka, called three witnesses and submitted a number of documents as evidence to the court during the trial.
“Justice Kumaliya thereafter convicted and sentenced the defendants to five years imprisonment without an option of fine each.
“The judge further ordered the defendants to jointly and severally restitute the balance of N3.5million to the petitioner or in default, serve an additional five years jail term each,” the EFCC’s statement read.
