Justice Mahmud Abdulgafar of the Kwara State High Court, sitting in Ilorin on Wednesday, 15 January 2025, convicted and sentenced Odeyemi Hammed Oluwaseun to one year in prison for internet fraud.
The self-styled spiritualist was prosecuted by the Ilorin Zonal Directorate of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on two counts related to internet fraud, impersonation, and obtaining by false pretences.
The first count states: “That you, Odeyemi Hammed Oluwaseun, sometime in December 2023 in Ilorin, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, dishonestly induced one Bose to send you gift cards valued at $3,200 (Three Thousand Two Hundred Dollars) under the pretext that they would be used to diabolically influence her ex-husband to return and marry her, while you falsely represented yourself as one Lord Hill, a female spiritualist, with the email account [email protected]. You thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 321 of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 324 of the same Penal Code.”
The second count states: “That you, Odeyemi Hammed Oluwaseun, between August and September 2023 in Ilorin, within the jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, dishonestly induced one Schneider Alina to send you gift cards valued at $4,500 (Four Thousand Five Hundred Dollars) with the false impression that they would be used to diabolically control her ex-boyfriend to return and marry her, while you posed as a female spiritualist with the Instagram account _Visions_by_Tendo_12. You thereby committed an offence contrary to Section 321 of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 324 of the same Penal Code.”
He pleaded guilty to the charges when they were read to him. Following this, prosecution counsel Sesan Ola reviewed the case facts, presented the convict’s extra-judicial statements and evidence, including the recovery of $1,000 (One Thousand United States Dollars) from him, and requested the court to convict and sentence him accordingly.
Convinced that the prosecution had proven its case beyond reasonable doubt, Justice Abdulgafar sentenced Oluwaseun to a six-month suspended jail term on each count and ordered that the sum of $1,000 (One Thousand United States Dollars), an iPhone 15, and a 2008 Toyota Camry recovered from him be forfeited to the federal government.
Oluwaseun, a 23-year-old from Oyo State, defrauded his victims online by posing as an American-based female spiritualist with the ability to help jilted women and estranged wives regain their partners’ affections.
