Nosa Akenzua, Asaba
An Obiaruku Magistrate’s Court in Ukwuani Local Government Area of Delta State has sentenced a Supervisory Councilor in the area, Gilbert Chuks Ejede, to six years imprisonment for defrauding one Chief Dele Joseph Omenogor of the sum of N2.7million.
Ejede was said to have obtained the sum from Omenogor under false pretence.
Delivering judgement, the Chief magistrate, Chucks Mbachi, said that the evidence before the court proved beyond reasonable doubts that the accused person defrauded Omenogor.
The chief magistrate, therefore, sentenced the supervisory councilor to six years imprisonment with hard labour.
The court also ordered that the councilor should refund the said N2.7million through the court on installment of N100,000 monthly until the entire amounted is fully liquidated.
Also, having been convicted, Ejede cannot contest for any elective position in the next ten years.
The convicted councilor was immediately taken to Agbor Prison, where he will serve the six years jail term with hard labour.
Meanwhile, two persons were on Thursday sentenced to two months jail term each by a sanitation mobile court for engaging in indiscriminate dumping of refuse in Asaba, the state capital.
The convicted persons include: Miss Mosurautu Omotosho and a wheelbarrow pusher she engaged to pick up waste from her residence, Zubaru Abubakar, who was caught dumping the waste on the road.
The Magistrate of the mobile court, Faith Kekejeh Kalu, in her Judgement, said that ignorance of the law was not an excuse, insisting that a clean Delta was achievable.
Magistrate Kalu, however, slammed a fine of N35,000 on the first defendant and N25,000 on the second accused, the Wheelbarrow pusher, in accordance with the Waste Management Board Law as cost of evacuation or face two months imprisonment each.
The first accused was able to pay the fine while the wheelbarrow pusher was unable to do so.
He was thereafter taken to Ogwashi Uku prison to serve the two-month jail term