Keffi (Nasarawa State) – An Upper Area Court in Keffi, Nasarawa
State, has sentenced 85 fake NYSC members to one year’s imprisonment
each or an option of N21,000 fine after they had pleaded guilty to a
three-count charge of criminal conspiracy, forgery and impersonation.
According to court records, the accused persons were sentenced on Wednesday.
The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps had on Wednesday
paraded 87 fake corps members before the media in Abuja after they had
been arrested at Nasarawa Toto for operating an illegal “NYSC
Orientation Camp”.
The presiding judge, Mr Ali Chongda, said that he had tempered
justice with mercy because of the pleas of the defence lawyers and
because the accused persons were first offenders.
Chongda, however, ordered that two of the accused persons, Matthew
Okey and Chinedu Ebubechukwu, the alleged masterminds who had pleaded
not guilty, be remanded in prison custody until March 29 for further
hearing of their case. (NAN)
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