An Adamawa State High Court sitting in Yola, has convicted two Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, staff to seven years Imprisonment for collecting bribes worth about four hundred million naira .
In his judgement, Justice Nathan Musa ordered the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, and the International Police to produce former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Allison-Madueke, to face prosecution over the said bribe she sent to the two convicted INEC staff in order to compromise the 2015 presidential election in the State.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had brought the case against Ibrahim Mohammed Umar, Sahabo Iya Hamman, and the former Minister of Petroleum still at large for conspiring to defraud the federal government with the intent to compromise the 2015 general elections.
The judge said he was giving a lenient sentence since the accused were first-term offenders adding that the sentence would run concurrently.
The convicts are to spent seven years each on the three counts charge.
Details later
