Justice Oyindamola Ogala of a Lagos High Court Ikeja has sentenced Alhaji Sharafadeen Irorun to 10 years imprisonment for scamming Muslim pilgrims out of their money to the tune of N7,500,000.
The trial judge had on April 29, 2024 found Irorun guilty on four counts out of a 12-count charge bordering on obtaining by false pretence and stealing brought against him by the Lagos State Government.
Ogala held that the prosecution had sufficiently established that the defendant and others who are at large are a criminal group and convicted Irorun on Counts 1, 2, 5 and 6.
The court affirmed that the defendant and others who are at large are a criminal group who unwittingly dispossessed innocent persons of their money under the pretext of helping them undergo the Hajj pilgrimage.”
The judge convicted him on the provision of section 312, 285 (9) (b) of the Criminal Laws of Lagos State 2011.
However, while sentencing the convict, the judge held that the convict obtained by false presence and stealing she therefore sentenced him to 10 years imprisonment. She ordered that the prison term to commence from June 6, 2022.
