Devil made me toimpersonate NSA,suspect tells court

It was drama
yesterday, as a self-
confessed fraudster,
Mr. Aminu Yarima,
narrated before an
Abuja Chief
Magistrate Court at
Wuse Zone 2, how the
devil, sometime in
December last year,
deceived him into
impersonating the
National Security
Adviser, NSA, Mr.

Sambo Dasuki.
Aminu, who pleaded
guilty to a one-count
criminal charge
preferred against him
by the Nigeria Police
Force yesterday, told
the court that it was
the same  devil that
commanded him to
dupe four sitting
ministers under
President Goodluck
Jonathan’s
administration.
Consequently, he bought
a GSM line, 08034467417,
which he used and
called the personal
phone numbers of the
Minister of Finance
and Coordinating
Minister of the
Nigerian Economy, Dr.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala;
Petroleum Minister,
Diezani Alison-
Madueke, Information
Minister, Labaran
Maku and the
Minister of Education,
Ruqayyatu Rufai.
Nevertheless, the
operation went awry
for the accused person
who holds a bachelor’s
degree in accounting,
shortly after he called
the four chosen
Ministers and
identified himself as
the NSA, demanding to
have a private
audience with each of
them with a view to
discussing certain
issues of great national
importance.
Sensing danger, one of
the ministers was said
to have notified the
Police which promptly
traced the call and
apprehended the
accused person.
Meanwhile, the
prosecuting counsel
who is a Deputy
Superintendent of
Police, DSP, Stanley
Nwodo, told the court
that the offence was
contrary to the
provisions of sections
312, 324 and 325 of the
Penal Code.
However, both the
accused person and his
counsel, Mr. Edwin
Atta, urged the court to
temper justice with
mercy, insisting that it
was the devil that
masterminded the
offence.
Specifically, the accused
person told the court
that not only was he a
first time offender, he
said he had two wives
and two kids that
depended on him for
survival, adding that
his mother died of
shock while he was in
detention.
The defence counsel
equally urged the trial
court to take into
account the fact that
the accused person
voluntarily pleaded
guilty to the offence,
saying he had since
repented of his actions
and shown deep
remorse.
Commending the
accused for not wasting
the judicial time of the
court, the prosecutor
said he was ready to
proceed on trial
yesterday assuming the
accused had not
admitted his guilt.
After listening to all
the parties, trial
Magistrate Grace
Adebayo adjourned the
matter till today to
convict and sentence the
accused person.
The offence upon which
he was charged attracts
a maximum
punishment of seven
years imprisonment.

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Posted: at 4-04-2013 01:48 PM (12 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Please let him provide the devil for interrogations and let him defend himself

Posted: at 4-04-2013 02:56 PM (12 years ago) | Hero