A Kaduna State High Court has sentenced the immediate past Sole Administrator of Kaura Local Government, Mr Ibrahim Baba, to seven years imprisonment for obtaining money by false pretence.

The court, presided over by Justice Tukur Mu’azu, did not give the convict an option fine, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said in a statement on Thursday.

According to the statement, Baba was arraigned by the EFCC on Jan. 7, 2016 for swindling one Alhaji Auwal Ibrahim of Rahusa Investment Ltd., Kaduna, through a shady gas supply contract.

He was said to have committed the crime sometime in 2011.

The court heard that the victim paid the convict N1 million for the supply of five trucks of gas at the rate of N200,000 per truck.

But after the payment was made, the victim neither received the product nor got a refund, the statement said.