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Court Convicts Mama Boko Haram

Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri has convicted and sentenced Aisha Alkali Wakil better known as Mama Boko Haram, and two others to five years imprisonment each.

Wakil who is the Chief Executive Officer, and CEO of Complete Care and Aid Foundation (NGO) alongside Programme Manager Tahiru Saidu Daura and Country Director, Prince Lawal Shoyode were re-arraigned on Monday, September 1, 2020 on four- count amended charges bordering on cheating, conspiracy and giving false information to the tune of N6m.

Count two of the charge reads: “That you, Aisha Alkali Wakil, Tahiru Saidu Daura and Prince Lawal Shoyade whilst being Chief Executive Officer, Programme Manager and Country Director respectively of Complete Care and Aid Foundation (Non-Governmental Organisation) sometime between October and November 2018 at Maiduguri, Borno State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, dishonestly induced one Alhaji Bukar Kachalla of Abks Ventures Limited to deliver to you a Toyota Camry 2012 Model worth N6,000,000.00 (Six Million Naira) only under the guise of executing a contract for the purchase of the said car and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 320 (a) and punishable under Section 322 of the Penal Code Cap 102 Laws of Borno State.”

The defendants pleaded “not guilty” to the charges prepared against them by the EFCC.

During the trial on Thursday, counsel for the prosecution, Mukhtar Ali Ahmed and Shamsudeeb Olayinka Saka presented three witnesses and tendered several documents as exhibits before the court in proof of EFCC’s case against the defendants.

Justice Kumaliya thereafter convicted and sentenced the defendants to five years imprisonment without an option of fine each.

The Judge further ordered the defendants to jointly and severally restitute the balance of N3.5m to the petitioner or in default, serve an additional five years jail term each.

The convicts bagged their imprisonment when they were arrested and prosecuted for taking from a petitioner a Toyota Camry 2012 model worth N6,000,000.00 (Six Million Naira) under the guise of purchasing the said car. They neither purchased the car nor returned it to the petitioner.

In June 2022, a high court in Borno State issued a five-year prison sentence to Mama Boko Haram for her involvement in a fraudulent scheme amounting to N71.4 million. Similarly in August 2022, she received another seven-year sentence for a separate fraud case involving N66 million.

Also, in September of the same year, she was sentenced to another seven years in prison for an N15 million fraud case.

In December 2022, Mama Boko Haram was sentenced to 10 years for a fraud case that involved NN120.5 million. In February 2024, she was sentenced to an additional 10 years in prison for conspiracy, cheating, and obtaining N40 million under false pretenses, alongside co-defendants Daura and Lawal.

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