Man Jailed For Giving Anti-graft Agency False information
Afimag.com –
Kaduna State High Court has on August 02, 2023, sentenced one Mr. Misbah Ahmed to one year jail term with an option of N100,000.00 fine on a one count charge bordering on false information.
Ahmed was found guilty by Justice Darius Khobo for providing the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, with false information.
The defendant endeared the Commission 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, 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 was not true.
According to the statement published at the commission’s social media handle, the convinct 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 N100,000.