Ilorin Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Tuesday, November 23, 2021, arraigned a 29-year-old serial fraudster, Joshua Ajayi Oluwatobiloba, for offences bordering on personation and cyber fraud.
He was arraigned on four counts before Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin. Oluwatobiloba, had sometime in June 2020 been convicted by Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court for similar offence.
After spending time at Mandala Correctional Centre, the convict went back to crime, and was again arrested by operatives of the EFCC and brought before the court for justice.
Specifically, Oluwatobi’s arrest and prosecution was consequent upon a report alleging that he was presenting himself as the Dean Student Affairs, and one “Dr. Efuntayo Oluwatobi”, a lecturer in the Chemistry Department, University of Ilorin, to scam unsuspecting students seeking to pay school fees and get hostel accommodation.
The defendant pleaded guilty to the counts. On Monday, November 29, 2021 the Judge pronounced Joshua guilty of the four counts and sentenced him to seven years imprisonment on each count, to run concurrently.
