Adamawa State Chief Magistrate Court I has convicted and sentenced a 61 year old Reverend, Ajiboye Kadmiel, to 10 years imprisonment for cheating 40 students of the sum of N5.947million.
Reverend Ajiboye, who hails from Imbru ward in Numan Local Governmernt Area was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by Chief Magistrate Abdullahi Mohammed Digil for cheating the students of the said sum of money.
Ealier, the prosecutor, Inspector Zakka Musa, informed the court that the convict collected the money from the students under the pretence of registering them into Passion College of Health and Remedial Science, Numan LGA, but converted same for his personal use.
According to him, the 61 year old allegedly collected the money ranging from N150, 000 to 200, 000 in 2017 and 2018 from his unsuspecting victims with assurance of registering them but to no avail.
The affected studernts are said to be an indigenes of Numan, Demsa, Lamurde, Guyuk, Fufore, Shelleng, Mayo Belwa and Song Local Goverment Areas, while others are from Taraba state.
When he was arraigned in court, the defendant and now convict pleaded guilty to the alleged offence after which, Inspector Zakka, lined up 3 witnesses who corroborated his plea.
After the testimonies of its witnesses, the prosecution closed its case during which the defendant was asked to enter his defence, but chose not to instead, maintained his guilt plea.
Thereafter, the prosecutor applied that the defendant be convicted and sentenced going by his plea and corroboration.
It was at this juncture that the counsel to the defendant, Danbaba Rigange, pleaded with the court to give his client another time to raise money, but the court replied that he was given enough time but failed to utilise it and left with no option than to dispose the matter.
Delivering its judgement, the court presided by Digil, sentenced him to 10 years in prison with an option of N200, 000, fine.
The court also ordered the convict to pay the sum of N5.947million as compensation to the complainants.
Alhamdulillah it's an example to everyone who have mind to cheat students not to help them am very happy with what they did to him..
ReplyDeleteGood example for those who have the same mind to do that,,
ReplyDeleteSuppose he's paying double coz if they those students invest the money in business sectors they'll have became millioners,