Uche Agomoh of the Federal High Court, Ibadan, on Friday, sentenced four internet fraudsters to various jail terms, totalling 18 months.
Mrs Agomoh, the judge, also ordered each of the convicts to sign an undertaking to be of good behaviour, after completing their jail terms.
The convicts are Samuel Olatunji, Joshua Adeyemi, Ekelechukwu Ugwu and Adedeji Bashir.
Messrs Olatunji, Ugwu and Bashir were each sentenced to four months imprisonment, while Mr Adeyemi was jailed six months.
The convicts had entered a plea bargain agreement with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to a count amended charge instituted against them.
Mrs Agomoh, assessing the spate of internet related crimes among youth in the society, in her four separate judgments, said there was no reason for youth to take to crimes in the country.
According to her, that there is no work is not an excuse for our youth to go into cybercrimes, and now that you are losing all, after being caught, so, what have you gained?
“You are getting minimum sentences now, because you did not have any previous record of conviction.
`However, you would be given the maximum conviction when next you are caught for any crime.
Source -Premium Times
