The federal capital territory (FCT) high court has sentenced
one Shedrack Greeson to three months in prison for fraud.
His sentence was disclosed in a statement by the Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Tuesday.
The commission said Greeson was arrested in January 2021 for
defrauding people on social media, while posing as a spiritualist.
He was then arraigned by the court on a two-count charge of
obtaining money by false pretence.
According to the EFCC, Greeson pleaded guilty to the charge
and was sentenced to three months in prison, with an option of N50,000 fine.
“The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Abuja
Zonal Office on Monday, March 22, 2021, secured the conviction of Shedrack Luke
Greeson A.K.A Ifaokurola Babalawo, before Justice Musa Usman of the federal
capital territory high court, Bwari, Abuja,” the statement reads.
“The convict was arrested sometime in January 2021 by
operatives of the commission for defrauding people on social media while posing
as a spiritualist. He was arraigned on March 22, 2021 on a two-count charge
bordering on obtaining by false pretence.
“Count one of the charge reads: “That you, Shedrack Luke
Greeson (alias Ifaokurola Babalawo), sometime in 2020, at Abuja within the
jurisdiction of this honourable court while pretending to be one Ifaokurola
Babalawo a spiritual healer, Ifa Priest, via Instagram account cheated by
inducing one Austin Brown from California U.S.A to deliver to you the sum of
N230,000.00 (two hundred and thirty thousand naira) only, and you thereby
committed an offence contrary to section 320(b) and punishable under section
322 of the Penal Code Act, Laws of the Federation (Abuja) 1990”.
“He pleaded ‘guilty’ to the charge, based on a plea bargain
agreement with the Commission. Consequently, Justice Usman sentenced him to 3
months in prison with an option of fine of fifty thousand naira (N50,000.00).”
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