A Plateau State High Court on Thursday convicted
and sentenced one Mohammed Umar, alias Terror,
to 15 years in prison.
Justice Yakubu Gyang Dakwak convicted him after
finding him guilty of the charge for offences
bordering on conspiracy, obtaining money by false
pretence and impersonation.
According to a statement by the Head, Media and
Publicity, Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, Wilson Uwujaren, Umar was arrested
in October 2008 following intelligence report that he
had been posing as an operative of the commission.
The statement read, “He was accused of extorting
top government functionaries in Bauchi, Gombe and
Sokoto States under the pretext that he had
damning petitions against them.
“He cajoled several of them into wiring funds into
his account with a promise to help stop any
investigations into the petitions.”
Justice Dakwak said that the prosecution had
proved the case against the accused beyond doubt
and accordingly pronounced him guilty on all three
counts.
One of the three charges against the convict read,
“”That you, Mohammed Umar and Mustapha
Abdullahi (now at large), sometime in 2008 at Jos,
Judicial Division of the High Court of Plateau State
did agree among yourselves to commit an illegal act,
to wit: Conspiracy to obtain money from a Special
Assistant to the Bauchi State Governor by falsely
pretending to hold the office of an operative of the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, as a
Public Servant and in such assumed character did
falsely pretend that you were in a position to
compound an alleged case of illegal contract deals
with some contractors and thereby committed an
offence contrary to Section 8(a) and punishable
under Section 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and
Other Related Offences Act 2006.”


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