A high court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo state capital, has convicted and sentenced Olayiwola Oguntade, a former employee of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), to five years in prison for fraud.
Oguntade was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on October 13, 2020, on a three-count amended charge bordering on forgery, advance fee fraud, and obtaining by false pretence to the tune of N10 million.
Count one of the charges reads: “That you, Olayiwola Oguntade, sometime in 2010 at Ibadan within the jurisdiction of this honourable court with intent to defraud obtained the sum of N10,000,000 by false pretence through Kola Al-Amin from Polybadan Microfinance Bank Ltd and thereby committed an offence of obtaining money by false pretence, contrary to Section 1 (i) (b) and 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences Act, 2006.”
Oguntade pleaded “not guilty” to the charges, prompting the over four years of trial, during which prosecution counsel, Oyelakin Oyediran and Lanre Suleiman, called 10 witnesses and tendered several incriminating documents against him that were admitted in evidence.
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Delivering judgment on January 28, Bayo Taiwo, the presiding judge, held that “the prosecution has proved its case beyond reasonable doubt, noting that the court was convinced that the defendant is guilty of the offences filed against him by the EFCC.”
Taiwo sentenced Oguntade to five years imprisonment without an option of a fine.
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