Supreme Court Discharges PDP Chieftain
Bode George of Corruption Conviction
on december 13, 2013 at 12:13 pm in news
The Supreme Court of Nigeria today discharged the
conviction handed Bode George a Peoples
Democratic Party chieftain earlier jailed for
corruption by a Lagos High Court.
The court discharged and acquited 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.
A panel of judges headed by a controversial judge,
John Afolabi Fabiyi JSC, ruled that the charges of
“contract splitting” upon which Mr. George was
convicted is unknown to law.
The pattern of today’s quashing of George’s
conviction was similar to that of a Lagos Court of
Appeal ruling which similarly quashed a death
sentence conviction of Major Hamza Al Mustapha’s
for the murder of Alhaja Kudirat Abiola in 1996.
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