Fake EFCC Staff Sentenced To One Year Imprisonment

Fake EFCC Staff Sentenced To One Year Imprisonment

Justice Turaki Mohammed of the Federal Hgh Court sitting in
Port Harcourt,  Rivers State, on Monday,  March 11,  2019 convicted and
sentenced to one year imprisonment,  Mr David Nimdu,  a fake staff of
the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,  EFCC,  arrested and put
to trial by the Port Harcourt’s Zone of the Commission.

The convict was arraigned on one- count charge bordering on
obtaining the sum of N250, 000.00 (Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Naira) only under false pretences from a petitioner that alleged that he
claimed to be an EFCC Staff. 

Trial commenced in the matter but Nimdu later pleaded
“guilty” on a plea bargain arrangement and was sentenced to one year
imprisonment.  He was also ordered to make restitution of the money
involved in the scam.

Nimdu’s ordeal began when he struck an agreement with a
petitioner to assist in the recovery of a loan of
N15,300,000.00            (Fifteen Million, Three Hundred Thousand
Naira) only owed by a banker,  Patience Amaewhule, in Port Harcourt.

The banker allegedly obtained the loan from the petitioner and promised to pay back in 120 days.

However,  she failed to keep faith with the promise and Nimdu came on the scene to assist in the recovery of the loan.

To demonstrate to the petitioner that he was indeed an
EFCC’s Staff, Nimdu allegedly went with the petitioner to Amaewhule’s
office to arrest her.  He even recorded a Statement made by the banker
and collected her house’s documents. 

He ordered the banker to commence the repayment of the loan
to the petitioner and directed her to pay an initial sum of
N250,000,.00 (Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira) only into his
(Nimdu) bank account, promising that the money would be payed into
EFCC’s loan recovery account. 

The petitioner later found out that Nimdu was an impersonator and reported him to the Commission.

Investigations by the EFCC showed that, Nimdu was a mobile
Policeman dismissed in 2012 after an Orderly Room trial occasioned by
allegations of corrupt practices imputed to him and for which he was
found guilty. Before being dismissed from the Nigeria Police, he worked
as a seconded staff to the EFCC and had since been disengaged from the
Commission.

Nimdu was also found to have sent several text messages to
different individuals claiming to be an EFCC’s operative from the Abuja
office.