Panel of judges at the Supreme Court of Nigeria today
quashed the conviction handed Chief Bode George a Peoples Democratic Party
chieftain earlier jailed for corruption by a Lagos High Court.
A panel of judges headed by John Afolabi Fabiyi JSC, ruled that the charges
of "contract splitting" upon which Mr. George was convicted is
unknown to law.
The court thereby discharged and acquitted Mr. George claiming
that’’ prosecutors at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had
no evidence of Mr. George's intention to commit fraud at the Nigeria Port
Authority (NPA) where as chairman of the NPA board he was caught presiding over
a contract bazaar the bled the nation of Nigeria.’’
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