More
than three years after serving a two-year jail term in Kirikiri Maximum
Prison for contract splitting, the Supreme Court in Abuja on Friday
reversed the conviction of the former Deputy National Chairman of the
PDP, Chief Olabode George.
The judges of the apex court, headed by
Afolabi Fabiyi, in their judgment, ruled that the charges of contract
splitting, on which the EFCC arraigned and secured the conviction of the
politician, was unknown to law of the land.
This development came less than three
days after former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Speaker, House of
Representatives, Aminu Tambuwal, accused President Goodluck Jonathan of
encouraging corruption.
The apex court ruled that the EFCC,
which prosecuted George, did not sufficiently prove that the defendant
had an intention to commit fraud at the Nigeria Port Authority.
George and other board members of the
NPA, where the politician was the chairman, were convicted and
sentenced to two years imprisonment byJustice Oyewole of a Lagos High
Court for contract splitting.
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