Aisha Wakil, also known as ‘Mama Boko Haram’, has been sentenced to prison for five years over fraud.
Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the High Court in Borno state handed the sentence on Tuesday in Maiduguri, Borno State.
Justice Kumaliya said the prosecutors proved the case against the defendant beyond reasonable doubt, and sentenced the defendants to five years imprisonment without an option of fine.
She ordered the convicts to pay N30,500,000 as compensation to the victim.
Justice Kumaliya said, in the event of default in payment, the convicts would have additional 10-year jail term.
The Maiduguri zonal command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had re-arraigned Wakil, alongside Tahiru Daura and Prince Shoyode, in September 2020, for conspiracy and obtaining N71,400,000 by false pretence
The defendants had pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Count one of the charge reads: “That you, Aisha Alkali Wakil, Tahiru Saidu Daura and Prince Lawal Shoyode, whilst being chief executive officer, programme manager and country director respectively of Complete Care and Aid Foundation (a non-governmental organisation), sometime in the year 2018 at Maiduguri, Borno state, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court with intent to defraud, induced one Saleh Ahmed Said of Shuad General Enterprises Ltd to deliver to you 3,000 bags of beans worth N71,400,000 under the false pretence of executing a contract for the supply of same, which you made the said Saleh Ahmed Said to believe that you had the capacity to pay the entire contract sum upon execution, which you knew to be false and you thereby committed an offence, contrary to and punishable under Sections 1(1) (b) and 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006.
During the trial, Mukhtar Ahmed, prosecution counsel, presented four witnesses and tendered several documents which were admitted as exhibits.
