Kaduna Based DJ, Blessed Michael Jailed For Impersonating Buratai, Dangote
A Kaduna based disc jockey, Blessed Michael is to spend six months in prison for posing on Facebook as former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Buratai and Mariya Dangote, daughter of Aliko Dangote.
Michael was also accused by the EFCC of using the false identities to solicit money from unsuspecting victims under various guise.
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.
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.
Victims of the scam alerted the Commission, leading to the arrest of the fraudster by operatives of the Kaduna Zonal Office of the EFCC.
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.
