The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) says it made a total of 312 convictions between January and
December 24, 2018.
Tony Orilade, spokesman of the
EFCC, said the record of convictions is “undoubtedly a significant improvement
from the 189 convictions recorded in 2017”.
“More significantly is that it
includes the conviction of two Politically Exposed Persons, PEPs – Jolly Nyame,
a former governor of Taraba State and Joshua Dariye, a serving Senator and a
former governor of Plateau state,” he said in a statement.
“Both are currently serving jail
terms at Kuje Prison. A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Joseph Nwobike, who has
been stripped of the highly revered legal title, was also convicted for
perverting the course of justice.
“Dariye and Nyame, who were
sentenced to 14 years in prison had approached the Court of Appeal to challenge
the ‘guilty’ verdict handed down on them by a Federal Capital Territory High
Court, Gudu presided over by Justice Adebukola Banjoko. However, while
upholding their convictions, the Appellate Court commuted Dariye’s jail term to
10 years, and that of Nyame to 12 years with a fine of N495 million.
“With the convictions, the EFCC,
led by Ibrahim Magu as the acting Chairman, has remained consistent in its
concerted efforts aimed at ensuring that the negative narrative of pervasive
corruption in the system is changed for the better, and the perception that
some persons are above the Law, is altered.
“The record of convictions cuts
across the various offices of the EFCC with Lagos securing 85 convictions,
Abuja with 53, followed by Kano with 36. Port Harcourt secured 33 convictions,
Gombe recorded 28; Benin had 27; Enugu, 15; Maiduguri, 11; Ibadan, 10; Uyo, 8,
and Kaduna, 6.”
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