Court Jails Woman 90 years Over N5.6m Admission Scam

A Federal High Court in Enugu on Thursday
sentenced a woman to 90 years in jail for
university admission fraud.

The woman, Chika Amsy Charles, was
prosecuted by the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission, EFCC, and was
sentenced to three years imprisonment on
each of the 30-count charge brought
against her.
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, 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.
Chika ran out of luck in 2007 when one of
her victims, who 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”.