In September 2020, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Maiduguri’s zonal command re-arraigned Aisha Wakil (Mama Boko Haram), with Tahiru Daura and Prince Shoyode, on a two-count charge of conspiring and collecting money by false pretense worth N71,400,000.
The inmates ran the Complete Care and Aid Foundation, a non-profit organization. The CEO was Barrister Aisha Alkali Wakil, the program manager was Tahiru Saidu Daura, and the national director was Prince Lawal Shoyode.
Mukhtar Ali Ahmed, the prosecution’s lawyer, called four witnesses and provided many papers that were admitted as exhibits during the trial.
The defendants had denied the charges and pleaded not guilty.
They committed an act, according to Justice Aisha Kumaliya, which is punishable under Sections 1(1) (b) and 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006.”
One of the charges reads as follows: “That you, Aisha Alkali Wakil, Tahiru Saidu Daura and Prince Lawal Shoyode, whilst being chief executive officer, programme manager and country director respectively of Complete Care and Aid Foundation (a non-governmental organisation), sometime in the year 2018 at Maiduguri, Borno state, within the jurisdiction of this honourable court with intent to defraud, induced one Saleh Ahmed Said of Shuad General Enterprises Ltd to deliver to you 3,000 bags of beans worth N71,400,000 under the false pretence of executing a contract for the supply of same, which you made the said Saleh Ahmed Said to believe that you had the capacity to pay the entire contract sum upon execution, which you knew to be false and you thereby committed an offence, contrary to and punishable under Sections 1(1) (b) and 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act, 2006.”
Justice Kumaliya ruled on Tuesday that the prosecution had proven the case against the defendant beyond a reasonable doubt.
The offenders were sentenced to five years in jail without the possibility of a fine after being found guilty.
The convicted were also ordered to pay N30,500.000 in compensation to their victim, according to the judge.
They will be sentenced to an additional ten years in prison if they do not comply.
Who is ‘Mama Boko Haram’?
Barrister Aisha Wakil was one of two women nominated to the government’s Committee for Dialogue and Peaceful Resolution of Security Challenges in the North in April 2013. Boko Haram representatives described her as a “must-have” participant.
Aisha, a lawyer and human rights activist, was tasked with identifying and engaging top Boko Haram leaders, as well as crafting a framework for amnesty and disarmament, with the help of 25 other committee members, including politicians and northern community leaders.
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