Man bags 4 months in jail for airtime fraud
A Federal High Court sitting in Lafia, Nasarawa State, on Tuesday sentenced a man, Mark Gbande, to four months in prison for committing airtime fraud.
Delivering judgment, Justice N.I.Afolabi sentenced the convict after he pleaded guilty to the one count charge of fraud.
Justice Afolabi however ordered the convict to pay a fine of N150,000 (One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira).
The convict was earlier arraigned by the Makurdi Zonal Command of the EFCC sometime between July and September, 2020.
He was said to have committed the offense in Makurdi, Benue State by transferring airtime in the aggregate sum of N211,300 from Access Bank Account No. 3024934975 belonging to one Danjuma Bello to his Airtel line No. 08166413766.
According to the prosecution, Gbande allegedly used an unauthorized access device to commit the crime.
The defendant later pleaded ‘guilty’ to the charge.
Upon his plea, the prosecution counsel, M. Yusuf prayed the Court to convict and sentence him as charged.
Justice Afolabi warned the convict to desist from any criminal act forthwith.
