Manhattan sentenced Abdullahi Shuaibu, 53, who worked at the UN in 2013, to two years in prison after an exhaustive plea agreement with the court.
It was a stunning defeat for the prosecutor who had asked that Shuaibu be sentenced to five years under the indictment.

Shuaibu pleaded guilty to one count of Attempted Robbery in the Second Degree; one count of Robbery in the Third Degree, a non-violent offense; and two counts of Grand Larceny, also non-violence offense. Grand larceny, also known as a grand theft, is the intentional taking of someone’s property or business under illegal conditions.

Shuaibu received two years for the one count of Attempted Robbery in the Second Degree and one year for the Robbery in the This Degree and one year for the Grand Larceny to run concurrent with the two years sentence. Therefore, Shuiabu is expected to be released from jail in about six months, having been arrested on April 18, 2017 for a string of bank robberies in New York.
He was initially charged with robbery in the first degree, where he was facing 15 years in jail, according to his lawyer, Olayinka DanSalami.

However, the prosecutor was unable to sustain that charge before the grand jury, explained his other lawyer, Tim Pruitt, who represented him at arraignment. During the plea negotiation with the court, the court had offered Shuaibu one year prison term, but the judge changed her mind after the prosecutor submitted to the court a letter purportedly written by Shuaibu to obtain an office in New York.

The defense attorneys had contested the accuracy of the letter and informed the court that the prosecution produced the letter because they were still upset that they were unable to get Shuaibu on a more serious charge However, the court refused to re-offer its original offer of one year. Rather than pleading to just one count under the indictment, the prosecutor also insisted that Shuiabu must plead guilty to all the four counts under the indictment.

At that point, his lawyers suggested to him to re-consider his position to plead guilty and go to trial, but Shuaibu was very tired of staying in prison without knowing what going on trial would hold. DanSalami said he would have preferred a sentence of probation or one year at the most, even though the plea was a good plea in the realm of things. After the sentencing, Pruitt advised Shuaibu of his right to appeal and one of his paralegals met with Shuiabu to go over the appeal process.
https://www.pressnewsng.com.ng/2018/04/former-un-staff-abdullahi-shuaibu.html?m=0

Eeyah

Good riddance...

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Am very happy i have finish to learning in my english lesson classes and now i can commenting on nairaland to sharing my what am thinking,

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Greed got the better part of him, cause by all standards he has a very good job so many wish to have

So Hausas sef dey abroad dey behave like igbo

Chai, with all the opportunity accessible to him? Next thing na to enter penitentiary for arss-hole reconstruction surgery courtesy of preeks

Any village-inspired spirit of Grace-to-Grass trailing us this year, oyah, #DieByFire!

Nigerians cannot divorce crimes from their day to day activities.SHAME!

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haywire07:
So Hausas sef dey abroad dey behave like igbo

It's yorubas who Rob commit fraud and grand theft abroad , ibos sell drugs

2years
fuc
r we in uk
e suppose be 50yrs

Say no to crime.

which kain story, wey no talk wetin cause the case in the first place.. all this jagorova journalist.

America: the true land of freedom.

This Man don cast us Humanitarians

A whole United Nations Organization staff

lestat:


It's yorubas who Rob commit fraud and grand theft abroad , ibos sell drugs

Nna, onye ka....ya me

Jesusworks:
Am very happy i have finish to learning in my english lesson classes and now i can commenting on nairaland to sharing my what am thinking,

Congrats! However, you urgently need to come for my post-graduation class for English learners before you start to make comments here. Lol!

haywire07:
So Hausas sef dey abroad dey behave like igbo

Yorubas... are hard working people like Seun Egbegbe and Dammy Crane.

haywire07:
So Hausas sef dey abroad dey behave like igbo

point of correction, It's not drug but robbery; that's a trademark of we Yorubas not Igbos pls.
Robbery, Fraud, rape, incest, adultery, ritual, and of course, skull mining; just leave those for us. It's our heritage and we won't share that with Igbos. Never!

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Do not deport him pls... Dis one go come home come join BH