The
convict was sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment on each of the eleven
count charge preferred against him by the EFCC. Yusuf had defrauded one
Ya’u Mohammed to the tune of N20 million between November 2012 and
January 2013 in a classic advance fee fraud scheme.
Posing
as a ‘spirit’ named ‘Asmau’, based in Niger Republic, the convict was
able to convince the complainant through a phone call into believing
that the mystery female voice had powers to establish schools and
mosques to propagate Islam but needed a human vessel through which this
could be achieved.
The
complainant gullibly fell into his trap after threats that he either
obeys the voice of the spirit or die. Subsequently, the convict began to
extort his victim and used the money to buy exotic cars and acquire a
mansion in red bricks area of Kano state. The sentences are to run
concurrently from the day of his arrest.
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