Olakunle
Akanni, a 1st class honours graduate of Lead City University, Ibadan
was sentenced yesterday Nov. 4th at the Ikeja High Court in Lagos to
one-year imprisonment after pleading guilty to a two-count charge of conspiracy
and obtaining money under false pretences ; an offences contravened Section 419 of the
Criminal Code, Laws of Lagos State, 2003.
Olakunle and one of his co-conspirators
defrauded a 77 year-old American woman, Diana Huizenga, of over 12,000 dollars
through an internet love scam. Adesina Akinsola, 30, was also given a similar
sentence by the judge but adjourned the sentencing of their co-accused,
30-year-old Dele Oshuntogun, till Nov. 17.
Justice Lawal-Akapo consequently sentenced them to one
year imprisonment on each of the counts.
He said the sentences were to run concurrently beginning
from the day the judgment was delivered.
“The first defendant, Olakunle Akanni, is to pay the sum
of N2 million which is the equivalent of $12, 820 to the victim (Huizenga), as
restitution. Also, the third defendant, Akinsola, is to pay the sum of N500,
000 to the victim as restitution,” the judge ordered.
He also ordered them to write an undertaken to be
submitted to the EFCC that they would be of good behaviour upon their release
from prison custody.
The EFCC counsel, Mrs Zainab Ettuh narrating the facts of
the case she said, Olakunle Akanni falsely presented himself to Huizenga as one
Robert Lewis, a white American living in Nigeria, who was in love with her.
According to her, "the convicts used the “love scam”
to fleece the woman and even invited her to come to Nigeria with $90,000 before
they were apprehended".
Source: NAN
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