An Abuja Chief Magistrate Court, yesterday, fixed April 9 to sentence one Mr Aminu Ado Yarima, who had on Wednesday, narrated how the devil, sometime in December last year, deceived him into impersonating the National Security Adviser, NSA, Mr Sambo Dasuki.
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Aminu, who pleaded guilty to a one count criminal charge that was preferred against him by the Police, told the court that it was the same devil that commanded him to dupe four sitting Ministers under President Goodluck Jonathan's administration. Consequently, he bought a GSM line, 08034467417, which he used and called the personal phone numbers of the Minister of Finance and coordinating Minister of the Nigerian economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, Information Minister, Labaran Maku and the Minister of Education, Ruqayyat Rufai.
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Nevertheless, the operation went awry for the 42 years old accused person who holds a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, shortly after he called the four chosen Ministers and identified himself as the NSA, demanding to have a private audience with each of them with a view to discussing certain issues of great national importance.
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Sensing danger, one of the Ministers was said to have notified the Police which promptly traced the call and apprehended the accused person.
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Meanwhile, though the prosecuting counsel who is a Deputy Superintendent of Police, DSP, Stanley Nwodo, told the court that the offence was contrary to the provisions of sections 132, 324 and 325 of the Penal Code Cap 89 Laws of Northern Nigeria, 1963, however, both the accused person and his counsel, Mr Edwin Atta, urged the court to temper justice with mercy, insisting that it was the devil that orchestrated the criminal act.