A Federal High Court sitting in Kaduna has sentenced an undergraduate
of Olabisi Onabanjo University , Ago-Iwoye, Mr. Olasaidi Dare, to five
years imprisonment over an attempt to obtain money under false pretences
in a cyber café belonging to a former member of the National Assembly,
Senator Olabode Ola in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti state.
Justice Lawal Shuaibu sentenced the convict and ordered that his imprisonment should take effect from the date of his arrest.
Dare
was arrested on 31 March 2008 at Friendly’s Cyber Café located at
Friendly’s Hotel along Adebayo Street, Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti state while
attempting to defraud an un-suspecting victim overseas using the
internet facilities of the café.
He was arrested alongside other suspects, one of whom had earlier been convicted by the same court.
The
owner of the hotel, Senator Ola, is already standing trial at an Ekiti
State High Court, Ado-Ekiti, before Justice Adeyemi over an alleged
illegal use of his premises and failure to register his cyber café with
all regulatory agencies, including the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC.
He is being tried along with the manager of the cafe.
The EFCC, in an operation codenamed Cyberstorm 1, raided all illegal cyber cafes all over the nation in March 2008.
The operation yielded several arrests and exposed several owners of un-registered cafes.
Dare was among those arrested and his conviction only reinforces the illegality and criminality of his actions.
Senator Bode Ola’s trial is still running in the court.
Source: PM News
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