HVILLE: inside dis hot sun,somepeople wan start season3 of bode thief,ok now i dey watch ooo God help dis country

hardbody: The implication is that his criminal status is reversed, he is now being propped up for future elective positions. I hail this failed country. As said elsewhere, God owes me a personal explanation for creating me a Nigerian.

lekanolas: Indications have emerged that the former chairman of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) Chief Olabode George, may have been tried in error by the Lagos State High Court, which sentenced him to two years imprisonment for contracts splitting and inflation in 2009.

Revelation by the Acting Director of Public Prosecution of the Federal Government, Mr. O.T Olatigbe, according to documents made available to National Mirror shows that there was no fiat from his office ordering the trial of George, a former National Vice Chairman (South- West) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Olatigbe, in a response to a memo by the office of the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Mohammed Adoke, which requested for the fiat upon which the trial was based, said there was no record of any such fiat with his office.

It will be recalled that a Lagos State High Court, Ikeja division, presided by Justice Joseph Oyewole, had convicted George and five others over alleged contracts splitting and inflation and slammed them with a two-year jail term without option of fine.

They include the former Managing Director of the NPA, Arc. Aminu Dabo; Captain O. Abidoye; Alhaji Abdulahi Aminu Tafida; Alhaji Zanna Maidaribe and Engr. Sule Aliyu who was joined as 6th defendant after the charge was amended.

The DPP in the memo dated February 25, 2010, stated: “I contacted the legal adviser of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Chile on phone and he told me that the Lagos State Attorney-General, gave EFCC the fiat to prosecute Chief Bode George at the Lagos State High Court, since the offence is a state offence and that no fiat was issued Mr. Festus Keyamo, and that it was the commission that engaged him for the matter, based on the fiat issued to it.

“Based on the above premise, it is my humble submission that EFCC failed to secure a fiat for Festus Keyamo to represent a Federal Government agency in court, and that action alone is fatal to the trial of Chief Bode George, for it is only a legal officer in the employment of the Federal Ministry of Justice or under the employment of EFCC that can prosecute any matter for EFCC without a fiat,” he said.

He also stressed the fact that the Federal Ministry of Justice always deploy competent legal officers to EFCC to prosecute its cases.

The AGF had in a memo dated April 16 with reference no: HAGF/ EFCC/2010/1/47 and addressed to the chairman of the EFCC, requested to be furnished with “details of any fiat issued to Mr. Festus Keyamo to prosecute the case against George in the High Court of Lagos State and also defend the appeal arising therefrom to this office immediately.”

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Source: http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/bode-george-tried-in-error-says-dpp/

omaigala: O God of creation

Direct our noble cause

Guide our leaders right

Help our youth the truth to know

In love and honesty to grow

And living just and true

Great lofty heights attain

To build a nation where peace

And justice reign.

julius0098: Let's wait for Festus Keyamo's side of the story first. I'm sure he will soon respond to this. From his response we shall know the truth. Be that as it may,one is being tempted to ask: is it the attorney general's fiat that is more important or the fact that the allegation was well established and proven against Chief Bode George beyong reasonable doubt? This question begs for answer

omenka: The disease that afflicts this country is a terminal one. The nation is on deathrow.

me1234: Can you see what i see, hmmmmmm i see Tinubu going to jail before 2015 election. government magic don start. I dey laugh

Demdem: It doesn't change anything, he remains "tewonde" George.

azyaq:
gbam

exbash: abeg oo wetin be fiat ? am not a learner