NDUBUEZE JUDAH ISREAL V. THE STATE

HAMMA AKAWU BARKA, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This appeal is against the ruling of Justice T.S Umar of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin, the Kwara State Capital in charge No. KWS/9C/2016 between; The State and Okechukwu Geoffery and one other, and delivered on the 1st of December 2016, wherein the appellant’s no case submission was dismissed.

The brief facts deducible from the record shows that appellant as second accused person, and one Okechukwu Geoffrey were on the 7th of April, 2016 jointly arraigned before the High Court of Kwara State sitting in Ilorin, on a two count charge of conspiracy to defraud one Igwe Joshua contrary to Section 8 and punishable under Section 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Related Offences Act 2006, and obtaining by false pretense the sums of money totaling three million Naira (N3,000,000.00) from one Igwe Joshua under false pretense punishable under Section 1 (3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and other Related Offences Act 2…