Calabar Yahoo kingpin pleads guilty, jailed, forfeits properties to FG
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Popular yahoo kingpin, Akpojivi Onoriode, was, on Thursday, sentenced by Justice Simon Amobeda of the Federal High Court sitting in Calabar, Cross River State, after #EFCC arraigned him on a one-count charge bordering on cybercrime.
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The 29-year-old graduate of Delta State University, Abraka, and a father of two, was arrested by operatives of the Uyo Zonal Office of the Commission in the early hours of Saturday, May 4, 2019.
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He was picked up at his lavishly furnished duplex on Plot 10, Block VI, Unical Satellite Town, Calabar, Cross River State.
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The charge against Akpojivi reads: “That you, on or about the 4th day of May 2019, did unlawfully produce, supply, procure for use and distributed a computer program (fake online banking link platform) designed for the purpose of electronically defrauding unsuspecting persons.”
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Following the weight of evidence gathered against him by the EFCC, Akpojivi chose not to waste the time of the court as he pleaded “guilty” to the charge.
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Delivering judgement, Justice Amobeda held that: “I do hereby sentence the convict to 6 months imprisonment with an option of fine of N500,000.
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The convict shall forfeit to the Federal Government of Nigeria the instruments used in the commission of the offence being thus: Acura ZDX, Range Rover Envogue, Mercedes Benz E 300 and the seven bedroom duplex situated at Victory Way Extension, Satelite Town, Calabar, Cross River State.”