Undergraduate Bags 18- Month Jail Term

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An Ikeja High Court on Tuesday sentenced an undergraduate, Damola Ekundayo, to 18 months imprisonment for being in possession of documents used for facilitating Internet fraud.
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Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye handed the sentence to Ekundayo, 27, after he pleaded guilty to a three- count charge bordering on the offence during his re arraignment.
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The judge convicted Ekundayo, who claimed to be a student of Lead City University in Oyo State, and consequently sentenced him to 18 months imprisonment on each of the counts.
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According to her, the sentence is to run concurrently beginning from Nov.11, 2013, when Ekundayo was first arraigned for the offence.
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The convict was charged to court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
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He had pleaded not guilty to the charge during the previous arraignment.
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Ekundayo, however, later entered a plea bargain agreement with the EFCC and opted to plead guilty to the charge.
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The EFCC counsel, Mrs Zainab Etuh, had said Ekundayo was arrested on May 6, 2013 in Lagos, for possession of fraudulent documents.
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Etuh said the accused was in possession of an electronic mail address, under the alias of Trisha Douglas, which he wanted to use to perpetrate fraud on the Internet.
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She said his offence contravened Section 318 of the Criminal Law of Lagos State of Nigeria 2011.
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Source: PUNCH Newspaper