A Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Tuesday sentenced two men: Kamaldeen Yusuf and Sulyman Omotosho, to six months imprisonment for internet related fraud.
The duo were arrested alongside 30 others in Malete, Moro Local Government Area of Kwara State in September 2021.
They were prosecuted by the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Counsel to the EFCC, Innocent Mbachie and Rasheedat Alao, had urged the court to consider the evidence before it and pronounce adequate punishment on the defendants.
In her judgment, Justice Adenike Akinpelu said that the court found merit in the case of the prosecution after careful consideration.
Akinpelu sentenced the duo to six months imprisonment with an option of fine of N100,000 each.
The judge also ordered that Yusuf and Omotosho should forfeit the mobile phones found in their possession at the point of arrest.
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