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Speaker 1: Lego State High Court has sentenced a month to one

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year imprisonment for being in possession of a freak Instagram

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profile used to defraud on suspecting members of the public,

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just as Nigeria President Bonner Amed Tillable says corruption has

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become a cancer, deligning the country its benefits. These were

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men known in news releases made available by the Public

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Relations Department of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission e

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FSAC during the week. Natails of the press releases read

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verbative below. Tenable charges Nigerians to close ranks raise stronger

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voices against corruption. President bonnar Amed Tyllable has called on

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Nigerians from all works of light to come together and

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form formidable unifying forces against economic and financial crimes and

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other acts of corruption. He gave the charge in Abuja

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on Monday, October seventh, twenty twenty four, while declaring open

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the sixth Economic and Financial Crimes Commission e f says

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National Judicial Institute nji’s Workshop for Justices and Judges. The

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President pointed out that corruption has become a cancer, deligning

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the nation the full benefits of its God giving resources

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and for its corrosive effects to be destroyed Nigerians must

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rise up combatively against it. Non Nigerian is immune from corruption,

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a cancer which continues to deny the nation the full

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benefits of its God given resources. Rather than look of

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only to the anti corruption agencies for a solution to this,

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malays I believe it is in our enlightened collective interest

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to close ranks and aggressively tackle this common enemy, he said. Tinable,

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who spoke through Vice President Kashum Stima, applauded rising improvements

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in the prosecution of corruption matters or into positive developments

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in the justice sector reforms, admitted that challenges impeding the

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speedy adjudication of corruption cases should be frontally tapoled. Some

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of them, he noted, include frivolous applications and appeals, intimidation

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of judges by council judgments not based on facts of

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cases but on technicalities. He commanded the EFCC for its

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courageous and focused efforts in combating corrupt practices and pledged

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more support to the commission. We will also continue to

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support the work of the EFCC to ensure that it

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continues to deliver its statutory mandate without late or hindrls,

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he said. Executive Chairman of the EFCC Vista honor only

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Coredy amplified other challenges affecting speedy trial of corruption cases.

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According to him, the specter of frequent adjointments of high

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profile corruption cases arising from frivolous applications, conflicting orders by

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colts of coordinate jurisdiction, and corruption cases in temperate contented

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orders hold at the Commission’s leadership on warranted orders of

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injunction restraining the Commission from investigating cases, among a plethora

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of issues that bothered the EFSAC. Oring to some of

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these challenges, especially the incidents of suspects first and criminal investigation.

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Russian too curt to obtain orders of injunction restraining the

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EFSAC from inviting, investigating, interrogating and arresting them or Leucate

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stated that the Commission was unable to conduct investigation in

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at least ten states of the Federation in spite of

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all days the efsaces most stressed that the Commission has

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been or nettled in its works engaging stackholders locally and

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globally to tackle the monster of corruption. As a commission,

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our efforts at integrated stackholders in the fight against corruption

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are continuous Earlier this year, we held a stackholder’s dialogue

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on the issue of cyber crime, where we equally unvolved

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the Commission’s new focus on corruption prevention with the stem

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unishment of fraud Risk Assessment and Control PHRACK. We are

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convinced that it is ultimately more profitable to prevent them

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to investigate and prosecute corruption cases. He said. The workshop

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seemed integrated stackholders in common economic and financial crimes drew

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a mammoth crowd of stackholders, policy makers, top government officials,

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civil society organizations and anti corruption bodies. Chief Justice of Nigeria,

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Justice km orkkre ecunstated that for every stackholder in the

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anti corruption corridor to be integrated, there would be a

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need for the establishment of a coherent and unified structure

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for information sharing across institutions. No single entity can have

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a complete view of the financial system. Make it imperitive

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that information flows seamlessly among the old stackholder, she said.

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Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Latif Fagmi San in

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his remarks, stated that building strong legal frameworks, effective law

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enforcement and international cooperation were imperative to combat financial crimes

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and unify stackholders. He also called for renewal of commitments

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to hire values to move the nation forward. Let us

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renew our commitment to justice, integrity and the review of

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our nation, he said. Other dignitaries that gress the opening

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session of the workshop include former Secretary General of the

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Commonwealth Chief and Mecha an Yoku, Senate President President of

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the Court of Appeal, Justices of the Supreme Court Court

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of Appeal, High Court, among others. Legos Court jerals one

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one year for possession of fraudulent documents. Justice oh oh

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A k. Fadpe of the Special Offenses Court City in

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li Keja, Legos, on Tuesday October twenty twenty four convicted

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and sentenced one non sol Joseph Ekelcha to one year

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imprisonment for possession of fraudulent documents. Aulture was prosecuted by

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the Legos Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission

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EFSAC on a one count charge bothering on possession of

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fraudulent documents used to perpetrate romance. Come. The count raids

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Non Sir Joseph Ekelcha on all about the twenty seventh

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of June twenty twenty four in Legos within the Judicial

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division of those Honorable courts with the intent to defraud

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hard in your possession Instagram profile account wherein you represented

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yourself as Ronald Gregory and other related documents for an

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online Latins come which you knew or ought to know

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to be false. He pleaded guilty to the charge. Following

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his guilty plea, the Prosecution Council ILG. A. Cannoli praimed

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the court to called his weakness is smiles siphula him

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an operative of the Commission to give a review of

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the facts. Sciphlai said. The defendant was arrested alongside others

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who engaged in computer related fraud in Legos on June

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twenty ninth, twenty twenty four. Upon his arrest, he was

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brought to the EFCC office. Items recovered from him at

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the point of arrest where iPhone, twelve, Promas and Samson

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Esten phones, which were analyzed through a forensic examination. The

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analysis revealed fraudulent documents about the defendant’s involvement in an

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online Latins count where he represented himself as a American

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bearing Ronald Gregory. He informed the Commission that he usually

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carried out the fraudulent activities by sending love messages randomly

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online to members of the public, and that those who

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showed interest in having a relationship were asked for financial assistance.

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I can only further apply to tender in evidence the

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defendant’s extrajudicial statement as well as the bundle of fraudulent

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documents printed out from his mobile phones. Justice Fadipe admitted

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them as exhibits and convicted him as charged. When he

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was given the opportunity to address the court, nonso pleaded

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with the court to temper justice with mercy, promising never

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to engage in internet fraud again. Consequently, Justice Fardipe sentenced

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him to one year imprisonment with an option of five

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hundred thousand miers and fifty hours community service. The judge

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also ordered that both the iPhone twelve Pro Max and

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Samsong S ten recovered from him before fitted to the

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Federal Government of Nigeria sas one Lady Queen day Qunie

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