Unequal laws, equal terror, By Wole Olaoye
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Court hands light sentence to assistant director who stole N32 8bn from police pension fund
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The recent conviction of Professor Peter Ogban for electoral offences that was described as a landmark decision in the nation’s jurisprudence, was last week made a mockery courtesy of a controversial bail pending appeal aimed at setting him free, Davidson Iriekpen writes
Barely four months after Justice Augustine Odokwo of the Akwa Ibom State High Court was commended for a landmark decision convicting Professor Peter Ogban for electoral fraud, he is on the street walking as a free man courtesy of a N10million bail pending appeal granted him last week by another judge.
Justice Justice Pius Idiong while ruling on the bail application filed by the convict, said the bail conditions would include a surety in like sum who must reside and have properties within the jurisdiction of the court. Other conditions include the presentation of Certificate of Occupancy signed by the state governor and two passport photographs each of the applicant and surety to the Registrar of the court.
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The continuation trial of a former director the Police Pension Office, Atiku Abubakar Kigo and five others for police pension fraud before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) was today stalled due to the ill-health of the prosecution witness.
Kigo, Ahmed Inuwa Wada, Mrs Veronica Ulonma Onyegbula, Sani Habila Zira, Mrs Uzoma Cyril Attanga and Christian Madubuke were re-arraigned on February 18, 2020, on an amended 18-count charge bordering on criminal breach of trust and fraud in the police pension scheme to the tune of N24 billion by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) before Justice Husseini Baba-Yusuf, sitting at Maitama, Abuja.