A high court sitting in Yola, has jailed two Independent National Electoral Commission staff for forty-two years for collecting bribes.The court, presided over by Justice Nathan Musa asked the Inspector General of Police, Mohammed Adamu, and the International Police to produce former Minister of Petroleum, Diezani Alison-Madueke, to face prosecution over the three hundred and sixty-two million naira she sent to the two convicted INEC staff in order to compromise the 2015 presidential election in Adamawa State.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had brought the case against Ibrahim Mohammed Umar and Sahabo Iya Hamman both staff of INEC as well as the former Minister of Petroleum for conspiring to defraud the federal government with the intent to compromise the 2015 general elections.
Musa said the court delivered the verdict after due diligence established a conspiracy between the persons, as such he convicted and sentenced the two INEC staff to seven years each on the three counts brought against them by the EFCC.The judge said he was giving a lenient sentence since the accused were first-term offenders adding that the sentence would run concurrently.
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