Man Jailed For Giving False Information To EFCC

Ayuba Sanusi 

JUSTICE Darius Khobo of a Kaduna State High Court has convicted and sentenced a middle age man to one year imprisonment after being found guilty on a one count charge bordering on false information.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had arraigned  Misbah Ahmed before the court on an allegation of misleading its operatives into believing that a huge sum of money in foreign currency was stashed in a residence located at Federal Housing Low-cost, Tudun Wada, Zamfara State.

Ahmad sometime in June 2023 at Kaduna allegedly willfully gave false information to an officer of the Commission that a large sum of money in United States of America currency (USD) was fraudulently kept at a residence located at Federal Housing Low-cost, Tudun Wada, Zamfara State, which he knew to be false. 

He thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 39(a) of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (Establishment ) Act, 2004 and punishable under Section 39(2) (b) of the same Act. 

He pleaded guilty to the charge. 

Consequently, the prosecution counsel, K.S Ogunlade urged the court to convict him accordingly.

Justice Khobo convicted and sentenced him to one year imprisonment or a fine of One Hundred Thousand Naira (N100,000.00) only.  

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