A graduate of Lead City University, Ibadan, who passed out with 1st-class honors has been sentenced to one-year imprisonment after pleading guilty to a two-count charge of conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretenses.
One of his accomplices, Adesina Akinsola, 30, was also given a similar sentence by the judge but adjourned the sentencing of their co-accused, 30-year-old Dele Oshuntogun, till Nov. 17.
There are reports that the convicts entered a plea bargain with the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Lawal-Akapo
consequently sentenced them to one year imprisonment on each of the
counts.
He said the sentences were to run concurrently beginning from the day the judgment was delivered.
“The first defendant, Olakunle Akanni, is to pay the sum of N2 million
which is the equivalent of $12, 820 to the victim (Huizenga), as
restitution. Also, the third defendant, Akinsola, is to pay the sum of
N500, 000 to the victim as restitution,” the judge ordered.
He also ordered them to write an undertaken to be submitted to the EFCC
that they would be of good behaviour upon their release from prison
custody.
Mrs Zainab Ettuh , the EFCC counsel, narrating the facts of the case,
told the court that the convicts committed the offences between
December 2010 and February 2012 in Lagos.
She said Olakunle Akanni falsely presented himself to Huizenga as one
Robert Lewis, a white American living in Nigeria, who was in love with
her.
According to her, "the convicts used the “love scam” to fleece the woman
and even invited her to come to Nigeria with $90,000 before they were
apprehended".
Mrs Zainab Ettuh said their offences contravened Section 419 of the Criminal Code, Laws of Lagos State, 2003.
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