- 3 - Defendant’s criminal records hence it is uncertain whether he is a first offender. Nonetheless this Court cannot disregard passionate plea made by the Defendant’s Counsel. It is noted that the Defendant was caught on the 10th January 2019 and within the time of his arrest he voluntarily elected to make a confessional statements and relinquished what was still in his possessions acquired from through illicit conduct. The convict disclosed his email password which enables the investigating team gain further accesses to the activities and modus of similar offenders. There is also evidence that he is 21 years old and is currently schooling. He has presented himself as one who is remorseful having regard to his conduct that has brought to fore all his candlestine activities. The lifespan of this proceedings has also been expeditiously brought to an end on the very first day the convict was arraigned but for his cooperation this matter could have lingered and led to the wastes of the Court’s manpower and indeed the nations recourses. I am therefore impelled to strike a balance all these competing considerations vis-à-vis the sentence that is to be imposed by this Court. In the light of the foregoing considerations as well as this statutory penalty prescribed in Section, I hereby order one year sentence and fine in the sum of N100,000.00 (One Hundred Thousand Naira) pursuant to Section 324 of the Penal code.

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