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Director of Sokoto State Commodity Board Convicted for Fraud.

HASSAN BELLO, DIRECTOR OF SOKOTO STATE COMMODITY BOARD, SENTENCED TO 7 YEARS IMPRISONMENT

Following the ruling of Justice Ahmed G. Mahmud, the Federal High Court of Sokoto has sentenced Mr Hassan Bello for offering an employment that does not exist to more than four persons.

Mr Hassan Bello the Director of Sokoto State Commodity Board was convicted on Wednesday and sentenced to 7 years imprisonment.
The conviction was done based on the charge that Mr Bello collected money from people giving them false promises and hope to get them employed into the Sokoto State Board of Commodity.

The convict, collected the total amount of one million, three hundred and twenty thousand naira from Yahaya Salihu Mohammed , Aliyu Adamu Tsaki, Yusuf Abubakar, among others, having Mr Dahiru Muhammmed as a witness.

Bello Hassan has been sentenced for a fraudulent act, he collected N1,320,000 from different persons he promised to give employment in the Sokoto State Commodity Board, Mr Hassan did not end at collecting money and promising them employment, he went as far as giving them fake appointment letters for employment, an act that is prohibited by the Advance Fee Fraud, Act 2006, section 1a.

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