‘Mama Boko Haram’ Aisha Wakil has been sentenced to five years jail term by Borno State High Court for obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of N71,400,000.
Aisha was re-arraigned, alongside Tahiru Daura and Prince Shoyode by Maiduguri zonal command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), in September 2020, on a two-count charge of conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretence.
The Commission’s spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, made this known in a statement on Tuesday, June 14, 2022, night.
The defendants had pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Count one of the charge 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 Said 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.”
In his judgment on Tuesday, June 14, 2022, Justice Aisha Kumaliya held that the prosecution proved the case against the defendant beyond reasonable doubt.
According to the statement by Uwujaren, the judge sentenced the defendants to five years imprisonment without an option of fine.
He said the defendants were sentenced to five years imprisonment on Tuesday without option of fine.
“The judgment was the climax of a process that commenced on Monday, September 14, 2020 when the defendants were re-arraigned on a two count charge of conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of N71,400,000 (Seventy-One Million, Four Hundred Thousand Naira) only”, he added.
Aisha Wakil, who is also known as Mama Boko Haram, was a member of the Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security Challenges Committee in the northern region, set up during the President Goodluck Jonathan era.
In November 2015, when the insurgents announced the names of prominent northerners who they wanted to represent them in negotiations with the Federal Government, Aisha Wakil and her husband, Justice Zanna Wakil of the Borno State judiciary, were on the list headed by President Muhammadu Buhari
