One Aisha Wakil, otherwise known as Mama Boko Haram, has been sentenced to five years imprisonment without option of fine.
Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court sitting in Maiduguri, sentenced her on Tuesday, June 14, 2022, alongside Tahiru Saidu Daura and Prince Lawal Shoyode over N71.4 million fraud.
The judgment was the climax of a process that commenced on Monday, September 14, 2020 when the defendants were re-arraigned by the Maiduguri Zonal Command of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission ( EFCC), on a two count charge of conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretence to the tune of N71,400,000 (Seventy-One Million, Four Hundred Thousand Naira) only .