UNILORIN student to clear drainage for 3-month over internet fraud
Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin, on Thursday, convicted and sentenced Salau Olamide, a 24-year-old undergraduate of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), to a three-month community service for committing internet fraud.
The service requires him to sweep Tanke Road, starting from GTB junction to Abulennla Furniture, University Road, Tanke, Ilorin, for three months commencing from September 7 or pay N50,000 (Fifty Thousand Naira) option of fine.
He got the jail term on Thursday after being arraigned on a one-count charge of attempting to cheat by criminal impersonation by the Ilorin zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
The charge read, “That you, Salau Olumide (a.k.a Rick Freeman) between November, 2017- August, 2018 at Ilorin, Kwara State, within the jurisdiction of this honorable court, attempted to cheat by personation by pretending to be one Rick Freeman, a white Caucasian with an email account; salauolumide@gamil.com and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 95 and 321 of the Penal Code Law and punishable under Section 324 of the same Law.”
Justice Oyinloye further stated ordered the convict to make himself available to the non-custodial service unit of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Madala, Ilorin for profiling and documentation, failure of which would attract six months imprisonment and “to provide notes on or immediately after 7th of December 2020 to the Chief Registrar of the High Court of Justice, Kwara State, confirming that the convict actually performed or observed the non-custodial sentence”.
