Mama Boko Haram, three others bag seven years jail term

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One of those jailed

The Maiduguri Zonal Command of the EFCC has secured the conviction and sentencing of Aisha Alkali Wakil, (a.k.a Mama Boko Haram) alongside Tahiru Alhaji, Saidu Daura, and Prince Lawal Shoyode.

EFCC rearraigns Mama Boko Haram

Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, sentenced them on Thursday, September 29, 2022, to seven years imprisonment each, for the offenses of conspiracy and another seven years for obtaining money by pretenses.

The defendants were first arraigned on September 14, 2020, before Justice Kumaliya on two counts of charges for the offenses of conspiracy and obtaining money by pretense to the tune of N 15,000,000.00 (Fifteen Million Naira).

The convicts made their way to the Correctional Centers when they falsely obtained the sum of N15 million from a petitioner, in the guise of providing solar energy for his use. They neither offered the service nor returned his money to him.

Justice Kumaliya had earlier convicted and sentenced “’ Mama Boko Haram” to five years, on two-count charges of conspiracy and obtaining over a million by pretense. She was jailed on June 15, 2022.

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