Court jails one for N6.6m fraud in Maiduguri

Justice Mohammad Maina of the Borno State High Court, Maiduguri, on Monday, November 9, 2026, convicted and sentenced Ijai Jampi to one-year imprisonment

Jampi was first arraigned on August 11, 2025, by the Maiduguri Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a one-count charge bordering on criminal misappropriation to the tune of N6, 660,000.00 (Six Million Six Hundred and Sixty Thousand Naira).

The charge reads: “That you, Ijai Jampi on or about April, 2023 in Maiduguri, Borno State within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, dishonestly misappropriated and converted to your own use the aggregate sum of N6,660,000.00 (Six Million Six Hundred and Sixty Thousand Naira) belonging to one Eneh Chinedu being payment meant for the supply of borehole plumbing materials which you used to execute a contract you secured with a Non-governmental Organisation, Gold Prime Organisation and thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 296 and punishable under Section 297 of the Borno State Penal Code Law and other Matters Connected therewith (No.3 Vol. 48 Law 2023) respectively”

The defendant pleaded "not guilty" to the charge when it was read to him, prompting the EFCC counsel, A.D Abdulmalik to proceed to trial. He presented six witnesses and tendered several documents before the court as exhibits in proof of the case.

Justice Maina thereafter convicted and sentenced jampi to one year imprisonment with an option of N200, 000. The Judge further ordered him to pay the petitioner the sum of N6, 660,000.00 (Six Million Six Hundred and Sixty Thousand Naira) or in default, serve additional one year imprisonment.

Jampi’s journey to the Correctional Centre started when he fraudulently collected the sumo of N6, 660,000.00 (Six Million Six Hundred and Sixty Thousand Naira) for the execution of a contract he secured with Gold Prime Organisation and diverted the money to his personal use.