Ms Aisha Wakil popularly known as ‘MamaBoko Haram’ has been sentenced to five years imprisonment over a two cont charge of fraud by the trial judge, Aisha Kumaliya.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) re-arraigned Ms Wakil alongside Tahiru Daura and Lawal Shoyode in September, 2020 on a two count charge of conspiracy and obtaining over N70 million Naira by false pretence.
The defendants all pleaded not guilty to the charges.
The case against the defendants was closed January, 2021 by the EFCC after the prosecution Council Muktar Ahmed, presented five witnesses and presented documents admitted in evidence as exhibits.
Also in June, 2021, the court had closed the defence of Ms Wakil, following her refusal to speak, on ground that she was sick.
The judge, in her judgement in Tuesday, held that the prosecution proved the case against the defendants beyond reasonable doubt.
The judge sentenced the defendants to five years imprisonment without an option of fine.
The EFCC said Ms Wakil popularly known as ‘Mama Boko Haram’ was the Chief Executive Director of a nongovernmental organisation, Complete Care and Aid Foundation.
The convicts had refused to make payment to one Bilikisu Abubakar after executing a supply contract for Complete Care and Aid Foundation owned by Mama Boko Haram.
One of the charges reads: “That you, Aisha Alkali Wakil, Tahiru Saidu Daura and Prince Lawal Shoyode, whilst being chief executive officer, programme manager and country director respectively of Complete Care and Aid Foundation (a non-governmental organisation), sometime in the year 2018 at Maiduguri, Borno State, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court with intent to defraud, induced one Saleh Ahmed Said of Shuad General Enterprises Ltd to deliver to you 3,000 bags of beans worth N71,400,000, under the false pretence of executing a contract for the supply of same, which you made the said Saleh Ahmed, to believe that you had the capacity to pay the entire contract sum upon execution, which you knew to be false, and you thereby committed an offence, contrary to and punishable under Sections 1(1) (b) and 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006.”