STEPHEN JONAH ADAH, JCA (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is an appeal against the judgment of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Coram: A.S. Umar, J (as he then was) delivered on the 21st day of June, 2018. By that judgment the appellant T.A. Dairo was convicted of the offences in counts 2, 3, 6, 7 and 10 of the charge and sentenced to a term of five (5) years imprisonment without an option of a fine in counts 2, 3, 6, and 7 while in Count 10 he was sentenced to a term of one-year imprisonment without any option of a fine. The sentences to run concurrently. The appellant being dissatisfied with the judgment of the trial court filed a notice of appeal on the 31st of August, 2018. There is an amended notice of appeal filed on the 18th day of March, 2019.
The facts as recounted in the record before us are that the appellant and three others namely Professor Babalola Borishade (now late); Roland Iyayi, Greg Eder and Avsatel Communications Ltd on the 9th day of …