Three Nigerians, Nwani Chukwuma, Opara Emeka Peter, and Moses Igomah Okini, were sentenced to various terms of community service for posing as Americans in order to carry out a romance scam.
EFCC operatives apprehended them from the Abuja Zonal Command for internet-related offences.
According to the EFCC, Chukwuma attempted to defraud one Florita, a Spanish citizen, in June 2022 by posing as Goodwill Chigo and Pablo Dennis, an American engineer living in Los Angeles, on two social media apps.
Peter, on the other hand, pretended to be one John, a military personnel stationed in Afghanistan, in order to defraud his victims, while Okinni pretended to be one Eliana Harold, an American military woman.
Justice J.O.E. Adeyemi- Ajayi of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT High Court, Maitama convicted and sentenced the trio of on Wednesday after they pleaded guilty to one-count separate charge bordering on impersonation, upon their arraignment by the Abuja Command of the EFCC.
The Judge convicted and sentenced Chukwuma to clean the FCT High Court, Maitama, for five hours a day for a period of twenty one(21) days.
He convicted and sentenced Peter to one month imprisonment and ordered him to serve as a clerical officer of the prosecution counsel for twenty(20) days.
Also, he was ordered to depose to an affidavit of good behaviour. Additionally, the judge released his phone and drone seized at the time of his arrest.
Okini was also convicted and sentenced to fourteen(14) days of cleaning the court premises. He is also to depose to an affidavit of good behaviour.