A
woman in Enugu state has been handed 90 years imprisonment after she
swindled N5.6 million from students seeking for admission into Enugu
State University of Science and Technology.
Chika Amsy Charles (Photo: PremiumTimes)
A woman has been sentenced to 90 years in jail on Thursday by a Court in Enugu State for university admission fraud.
The woman identified as Chika Amsy Charles, was prosecuted by the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and was sentenced to
three years imprisonment on each of the 30-count charge brought against
her. The sentences are to run concurrently from the date of her
conviction.
Ms. Charles had swindled three young Nigerians to the tune of N5.6
million under the guise of helping them secure admission into Enugu
State University of Science and Technology, through her unregistered NGO
called “Bold and Dynamic Gender Initiative”.
But Ms. Charles ran out of luck in 2007 when one of her victims
whom she defrauded petitioned the EFCC, on her fraudulent activities.
One of the Counts on which she was convicted and sentenced reads: “That
you Chika Amsy Charles, Simon Chidubem (at large) and Friday Ali(at
large) on or about the 10th October, 2007 at Enugu, Enugu State within
the jurisdiction of the Federal High Court of Nigeria with intent to
defraud obtained N330,000(Three Hundred and Thirty Thousand) from Okudoh
Obinna by false pretense when you represented yourselves as capable of
procuring admission for his wards into Enugu State University of Science
and Technology which pretense you knew to be false and thereby
committed an offense contrary to Section 1(1)(b) of the Advanced Fee
Fraud and Other Related Offences Act NO: 14 of 2006 and punishable under
Section 1(3) of the same Act”.
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