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DJ jailed for cloning Buratai, Mariya Dangote’s Facebook accounts

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has secured the conviction of a Disk Jockey, Blessed Micheal for cloning the Facebook accounts of former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai and Mariya Dangote, daughter of industrialist, Aliko Dangote.

Spokesman to EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, who disclosed this in a statement on Monday, said the suspect was using the false identities to solicit money from unsuspecting victims.

According to him the victims of the scam alerted the commission, leading to the arrest of the fraudster by operatives of the Kaduna zonal office.

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The statement said: “The convict who was prosecuted before Justice Mohammed Tukur of the Kaduna State High Court, Kaduna, on one count amended charge bordering on cheating by impersonation employed the cloned Facebook account of the retired army chief in soliciting from persons seeking enlistment into the army.

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“In the same vein, he  left a telephone number in the cloned Facebook account of Dangote’s daughter, which he invited prospective victims to call, to claim a certain amount of money,” the statement added.

The Charge reads: “That you Blessed Micheal,( M) of No.2 Okoro, Benin City, Edo State sometime in January, 2021 in Kaduna within the Judicial Division of this Honourable Court did commit cheating by impersonation by pretending to be Tukur Yusuf Buratai ( former Chief of Army Staff ) and Mariya Dangote  ( Daughter to Aliko Dangote ) on Facebook accounts you created using your iPhone 6, infinix  Hot 5 and in such assumed character obtained MTN recharge card worth One Thousand Naira ( N1000) only from unsuspecting persons ,  you thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 308 of the Penal Code Law, 2017 of Kaduna State and  punishable under section 309 of the same Law”.

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Mr Uwujaren said the defendant pleaded guilty to the charge, which prompted the EFCC counsel, Y. J Matiyak to ask the Court to convict and sentence him accordingly.

He was convicted and sentenced to “six months imprisonment without option of fine,” he added.

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