Court jails FCDA official 25 years for Land racketeering

Justice A.O. Musa of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT High Court, Abuja, has convicted and sentenced a employees member of the Federal Capital Development Authority, FCDA, Kinsley Eselebor, to 25 years’ imprisonment for acquiring cash beneath false pretences and utilizing solid paperwork to defraud a land purchaser.

An announcement issued by the EFCC says the decide delivered the judgment on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, after discovering Eselebor responsible on all 5 counts costs introduced in opposition to him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

The courtroom sentenced the convict to seven years’ imprisonment every on counts one, two and three, and two years every on counts 4 and 5, with all sentences to run concurrently and with out an choice of positive.

The prosecution established that Eselebor, an worker of the FCDA’s Department of Urban and Regional Planning, defrauded Moses Osinachi of cash paid for 2 plots of land at Kubwa District Central Annex, Abuja.

The properties, recognized as Plots 383 and 424, have been introduced to the petitioner as real, regardless of Eselebor’s lack of title to promote them.

The cost was initially filed in March 2021 with three counts of acquiring cash beneath false pretences. It was later amended to 5 counts, with counts one to a few referring to acquiring cash beneath false pretences and counts 4 and 5 regarding the usage of solid paperwork as real to persuade the petitioner of the authenticity of the land.

The courtroom discovered Eselebor responsible on all 5 counts and imposed the respective jail phrases, directing that they run concurrently as a result of the offences arose from the identical transaction.

The courtroom, nevertheless, dominated that the jail phrases will run concurrently.