The Chief Executive Officer of Complete Care and Aid Foundation, a nongovernmental governmental organization (NGO) Aishal Wakil popularly known as Mama Boko Haram and two other officials of her organization have been sentences to five years imprisonment each over N6 million fraud.

The two others sentenced alongside Mama Boko Haram were identified as Tahiru Saidu Daura, the programme manager of the NGO and the organisation’s Country Director, Prince Lawal Shoyode.

The convicts bagged their imprisonment when they were arrested by and prosecuted by EFCC for taking from a petitioner a Toyota Camry 2012 model worth N6,000,000.00 (Six Million Naira) under the guise of purchasing the said car.

They neither purchased the car nor returned it to the petitioner.

They were jailed by Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri on Thursday, November 28, 2024 following their conviction on a four- count amended charges bordering on cheating, conspiracy and giving false information to the tune of N6 million levelled against them by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Dele Oyewale, the spokesperson for the anti graft agency said in a statement.

Count two of the charge reads: “That you, Aisha Alkali Wakil, Tahiru Saidu Daura and Prince Lawal Shoyade whilst being Chief Executive Officer, Programme Manager and Country Director respectively of Complete Care and Aid Foundation (Non-Governmental Organisation) sometime between October and November 2018 at Maiduguri, Borno State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, dishonestly induced one Alhaji Bukar Kachalla of Abks Ventures Limited to deliver to you a Toyota Camry 2012 Model worth N6,000,000.00 (Six Million Naira) only under the guise of executing a contract for the purchase of the said car and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 320 (a) and punishable under Section 322 of the Penal Code Cap 102 Laws of Borno State.”

The defendants pleaded “not guilty” to the charges prepared against them by the EFCC.

During the trial, counsel for the prosecution, Mukhtar Ali Ahmed and Shamsudeeb Olayinka Saka presented three witnesses and tendered several documents as exhibits before the court in proof of EFCC’s case against the defendants.

Justice Kumaliya thereafter convicted and sentenced the defendants to five years imprisonment without an option of fine each.

The Judge further ordered the defendants to jointly and severally restitute the balance of N3.5m to the petitioner or in default, serve an additional five years jail term each.