[Mhiz Rebecca]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
EFCC, on Thursday October 27, 2016, secured the
conviction of one woman, Mrs. Chika Amsy Charles,
who was convicted by Justice D.V Agishir of the
Federal High Court Enugu, and sentenced to three
years imprisonment on each of the thirty count
charge preferred against her by the Commission.
The sentences are to run concurrently from the date
of her conviction.
The Convict was found guilty of swindling three
young Nigerians to the tune of N5,620,000.00 (Five
million, Six Hundred and Twenty Thousand Naira
only) under the guise of helping them secure
admission into Enugu State University of Science
and Technology ESUTH, through her unregistered
NGO called ‘Bold and Dynamic Gender Initiative’.
But Chika ran out of luck in 2007 when one of her
victims whom she defrauded petitioned the EFCC,
on her fraudulent activities.
One of the Counts on which she was convicted and
sentenced reads: “That you Chika Amsy Charles,
Simon Chidubem (at large) and Friday Ali(at large)
on or about the 10th October, 2007 at Enugu,
Enugu State within the jurisdiction of the Federal
High Court of Nigeria with intent to defraud
obtained N330,000(Three Hundred and Thirty
Thousand) from Okudoh Obinna by false pretense
when you represented yourselves as capable of
procuring admission for his wards into Enugu State
University of Science and Technology which
pretense you knew to be false and thereby
committed an offense contrary to Section 1(1)(b) of
the Advanced Fee Fraud and Other Related Offences
Act NO: 14 of 2006 and punishable under Section
1(3) of the same Act”.