A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Gudu, Abuja Wednesday rejected an application for bail filed by the immediate past Taraba State Governor Reverend Jolly Nyame. At resumed hearing Wednesday counsel to the defendant Mr Olalekan Ojo brought an application of 29 paragraph affidavit with two medical reports from Jalingo urging the court to release the defendant on bail due to health reasons. According to Ojo; “I urge this honourable court to grant the defendant bail on health grounds because as it is he is suffering from hypertension and diabetes” In response to the application filed by his learned brother the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission counsel Mr. Rotimi Jacobs (SAN) urged the court to dismiss the application for bail because the two medical reports cannot be relied upon. ”My lord the defendant did not state that the prison authorities are unable to take care of his illment and so I urge my lord to dismiss the application for bail,” Mr Jacobs said. In her ruling Justice Adebukola Banjoko rejected the defendant’s application for bail because his medical reports tendered in court are contradictory. ”The defendant’s medical reports are contradictory and they don’t collerate in anyway. His health ought to be taken care of by the prison authorities,” Justice Banjoko held. Justice Banjoko also added that the defendant failed to prove that the medical team in the Kuje prison lack medical facilities. However on the 30th of May Justice Adebukola Banjoko had convicted the ex-governor on 27 out of the 41 counts contained in the charge filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in July 2007. The breakdown of the sentence is as follows: 14 years upon conviction for the offence of criminal breach of trust; 7 years for receiving gratification; 5 years for obtaining valuable public properties without consideration, and 2 years for criminal misappropriation. The judge said the sentences would run concurrently, implying that the ex-governor may end up spending 14 years in prison. Justice Banjoko, who said the defendant betrayed his claim to be a clergyman and Reverend, wondered why it was only the ex-governor that was prosecuted in view of the level of impunity displayed, while Nyame was in office. The judge, in the over 300-page judgment, which she read for over six hours, said after carefully examining all the evidence tendered by the prosecution, she was left with no option than to conclude that it was “either Nyame entered into office without a corrupt mind, but later became corrupt or he was corrupt ab-initio.]]>
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