The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a post-conviction bail application filed by Peter Nwaoboshi, a Nigerian senator jailed for fraud.
Delivering its ruling on Mr Nwaoboshi’s post-conviction request, Emmanuel Agim, a member of the Supreme Court’s panel of justices, said, “…He has remained at large, except for his occasional production of medical reports here and there. It is difficult to imagine where he is. “They make the laws, they must respect the laws. And, if they do not respect the laws, it means that they have failed in discharging their mandate.”
Determined to extricate his client from jail, Mr Agabi, a former Attorney-General of the Federation , begged the Supreme Court to speed up hearing in Mr Nwaoboshi’s appeal. In 2021, this newspaper reported that Mr Nwaoboshi was accused by the Niger Delta Development Commission of using 11 companies as fronts to secure for himself a N3.6 billion contract in the commission. The contract was not executed and the money was not refunded.
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