Justice Mohammed Owolabi of the Oyo State High Court 14, sitting in Iyaganku, Ibadan on Thursday, convicted one Hammed Babatunde Mutiu of visa racketeering and sentenced him to nine months in prison.
The charge was sequel to a petition jointly written by four of his victims in which he was alleged to have collected sums totaling N4, 350, 000 with the pretence that he had secured Canadian visas for them. Count one of the charge reads: “That you Hammed Babatunde Mutiu on or about the 23rd of May, 2018, at Ibadan within the Ibadan Judicial Division of this honourable court with intent to defraud, obtained the sum of One Million Naira only from one Zekeri Zakky Emestemhe by falsely pretending that it was part payment of the cost price of Canadian Visa you have secured for him, and thereby committed an offence.”The court found him guilty in all the charges and convicted him accordingly.
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