Businessman Bags Two Years For Cheating

 

A Grade 1 Area Court in Aso Pada, Mararaba, Nasarawa State, on Thursday sentenced a 32-year-old businessman, John Daniel, to 24 months imprisonment for breach of trust and cheating.


The presiding Judge, Mr Albert Maga, convicted the businessman after he pleaded guilty to a two-count charge of breach of trust and cheating.

Maga, however, gave the convict an option to pay N6,000 fine or remain in Keffi Prison for 24 months and also ordered him to give N140,000 as compensation to the complainant.

The prosecutor, Cpl. Friday Adaji, had told the court that the matter was reported at the ‘A’ Divisional Police Station, Mararaba, on Dec. 15 by Mrs Ego Godwin of down Quarter, Mararaba.

Adaji said sometimes in Jan. 2014, the convict of same address came to the complainant and asked her to join a contribution of N8,000 with over 20 other people, which she accepted.

He said the convict told her that she would receive N140, 000 as her contribution in June 2014, but that she went for her husband’s burial and therefore could not receive the money.

Adaji added that when she came back, the convict refused to give her the money and converted it to his personal use without her consent.

The prosecutor said that the offences contravened the provisions of sections 312 and 322 of the Penal Code.

The convict pleaded guilty to the charges leveled against him. (NAN)