Court Sends Fake Glo Ambassador To Jail

A 29-year-old man has been sentenced to two years imprisonment by a Federal High Court sitting in Gombe. The man, Khalil Ahmed, was sentenced by Justice Mohammed Garba Umar on Tuesday.

The convict was arraigned after he was accused of presenting himself a Glo agent, and fraudulently extorted goods and money worth N267,000 from a female undergraduate of Bayero University, Kano, Yusra Ali Babakusa, with assurances of making her a Glo ambassador, which he never fulfil.

He was jailed after he later pleaded guilty to the two-count charge levelled against him.

In 2012, Ahmed promised to help Yusra become a Glo ambassador through his contacts at the company, after he presented himself as a Glo agent.

But when he could not make the victim an ambassador as promised, he was picked up by security operatives, who charged him to court when it was discovered that he was only lying to the lady.

The convict had forwarded a code number to Yusra with assurances that she would soon be called up as one of the eventual winners and ambassadors. Khalil subsequently told the victim to send some money to him to facilitate the process.

He further informed Yusra to prepare for an interview trip to Glo headquarters in Lagos as her name had been selected; a journey Khalil said had been paid for by Glo (accommodation and return flight ticket).

On the expected day of the journey, Khalil prompted her to wait for him, but stopped answering her calls after a while and eventually switched off his phone. It was when she made numerous attempts to reach him but failed, that she realized she had been conned.