Abubakar Mohammed
By Our Reporter
Abubakar Mohammed has been sentenced to four years imprisonment on a four-count charge for attempt to commit theft, personation, possession and use of false document by Justice S.Y. Abubakar of Gombe State High Court, Gombe..
The defendant who was prosecuted by the Gombe Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), was convicted on 23 September after pleading guilty to the charges which are punishable under Sections 287,132 and 364 of the Penal Code Law.
He was said to have on February 24, 2016, attempted to use a false identity to transfer the sum of N6 million from an Ecobank Account No 0123022902 to another account in Guaranty Trust Bank.
The inconsistency of his signature and the identity card he presented caused the bank to tip off the EFCC, leading to his arrest.
The defendant, through his counsel, pleaded for leniency but the trial judge found him guilty of all the charges, convicted and sentenced him to one year imprisonment each on the four counts with the option of a fine of N40, 000.
