Fake EFCC Officer Bags 14 Years Imprisonment

A fake operative of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC), Muhammad Adamu has been sentenced to 14-year imprisonment by a High Court sitting in Gombe, the Gombe State capital.

The court also ordered Adamu to pay a restitution of N45,000 to one Musa Haruna, being the sum the convict falsely collected from him and a fine of N50,000

Adamu, according to a press statement issued by the spokesman for commission’s zonal office in Gombe, Mr. Gbenga Aroyehun, falsely presented himself as an operative of the EFCC to the Executive Secretary of the Gombe Muslim Pilgrims’ Welfare Board .

Adamu claimed to be working with the EFCC in order to extort money and other benefits from the board, said Aroyehun in the statement on Sunday.

According to Aroyehun, the secretary of the pilgrims board wrote a petition to the commission alleging that the convict presented a list of false officials of the Gombe zonal office of the EFCC and that he demanded unspecified amounts of money to induce the EFCC officials.

The anti-graft agency’s spokesman stated that other charges brought against the convict were attempt to commit an offence and being in possession of forged documents.