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Ekiti Water Corporation Staff, Four Others Jailed For Cyber Fraud

Justice Muhammed Sani of the Federal High Court in Ilorin on Wednesday, November 24, 2021 convicted a 25-year-old staff of the Ekiti State Water Corporation, Opeyemi Akinluyi, for offences bordering on cyber fraud.

Akinluyi, a native of Ijan-Ekiti in Ekiti State was convicted alongside Ajibade Timileyin Emmanuel and Ezekiel Oluwaseun Temitope from Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State. Also convicted were Abbas Olatayo Ojo from Igbeti, Oyo State and one Kareem Quadri.

The convicts were prosecuted on separate charges by the Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC before different Justices of both the Federal High Court and Kwara State High Court in Ilorin. For details of this and other stories, visit our website: www.efccnigeria.org.

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