N1.5M Job Scam: 'ARMY CAPTAIN' BAGS 7 YEARS IMPRISONMENT

Emmanuel Sunday alias Umoh Sunday Iyang, Iyang Samuel Chukwudi, has been sentenced to seven and half years imprisonment without

option of fine for o btaining money under false pretence.

The convict was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on March 19, 2014 on an 8-count charge bordering
on obtaining money by false pretence. He pleaded not guilty to the count charge.

He was arraigned before Justice P.I. Ajoku of the Federal High Court, Benin, Edo State and was sentenced today.

After diligent prosecution, Justice Ajoku found him guilty on the 5-count amended charge and sentenced him to thirty months imprisonment each of the counts. The court also ordered that the convict forfeit his two (2) phones to the Federal Government.

The journey to prison for Emmanuel started when he was arrested in Benin on August 13, 2013 by the Nigerian Army, 4 Brigade/sector 1,
Operation Pulo Shield, for posing as an Army Captain to defraud one Igue Endurance of the sum of N1, 545,000.00 (One Million Five
Hundred And Forty- Five Thousand Naira) in the pretext that the said amount be used to facilitate her recruitment into the Nigerian Army.

One of the charges read, “That you Emmanuel
Sunday ( also known as Umoh Sunday, Inyang
Samuel Chukwudi) on or about May, 2013, at
Benin within the Jurisdiction of this
honourable court, with intent to defraud did
represent yourself to be a captain with the
Nigerian Army and obtained the sum of Three
Hundred Thousand Naira only(300,000.00)
from one Igue Endurance, which said money
you used part of it and paid the sum of Eighty
Thousand Naira into your Diamond bank plc,
account 0001857059, under the pretence that
the said sum would be used to get Igue
Endurance recruited into Nigerian Army, a
pretext which you knew to be false and
thereby committed an offence contrary to
section 1(1) (a) of the Advance Fee Fraud and
Other Related Offences Act 2006 and
punishable under section 1(3) of the same Act”.