Court Jails Student For Impersonation

Justice Uche Agomoh  of the Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State on Tuesday, October 12, 2021 convicted and sentenced one Shoneye Idowu Segun to one year in prison for impersonation

Shoneye claims to be a student of Marketing from Ogitech Polytechnic.

He was convicted after pleading guilty to one-count charge bordering on impersonation,according to a statement issued by Wilson Uwujaren who is the of Head, Media & Publicity of the Commission

The charge read: “That you  Shoneye Idowu Segun  sometimes in 2020 at Ilaro within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court did fraudulently impersonated the name – Anna Balogun from  Texas, United States of America with intent to gain advantage for yourself and  thereby committed an offence contrary to section 22 (2) (b) of the Cybercrimes (Prohibition, Prevention, etc) Act, 2015 and punishable under Section 22 (2) (b) of the same Act”.

Prosecution counsel, Sanusi Galadanchi reviewed the facts of the case and urged the court to convict Shoneye accordingly.

Justice Agomoh  convicted and sentenced Shoneye to twelve months jail term and ordered him to pay restitution of four hundred and seventy five United States Dollars. ($475).