Bribery: Supreme Court upholds jail term for Kwara poly governing board chair

Date: 2021-06-19

The Supreme Court has validated the 12-year jail term handed down to a former Chairman of the Governing Council of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Saadu Alanamu, by the Kwara State High Court.

In an unanimous decision of its panel led by Uwani Abba-Aji, the Supreme Court struck out all the grounds of appeals as "incompetent, misconceived and lacking in merit".

A statement issued Friday by the Independent Corruption Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC), which prosecuted the case stated that the apex court, based on its findings, affirmed Mr Alanaumu's conviction and the 12-year jail term imposed on him.

ICPC's statement signed by its spokesperson, Azuka Ogugua, said Mr Alanamu was nominated in 2017 into the board of the ICPC before he was dropped following allegations of corruption.

Mr Alanamu was investigated by ICPC on allegations of receiving N5 million bribe from a contractor, Salman Sulaiman, the Chief Executive Director of Namylas Nig. Ltd, as a kickback for the award of contracts in the polytechnic.

They were subsequently tried before the judge, Mahmud Abdulgafar, of Kwara State High Court, in Ilorin, on eight counts of bribery.

They had pleaded not guilty to all the charges.

But the court during trial was informed of how Mr Alanamu ensured that the contract for the construction and furnishing of an auditorium in Kwara State Polytechnic, at the cost of N182.3 million, was awarded to a company belonging to his friend when it was not qualified to execute the contract.

PREMIUM TIMES had reported in 2019 how the lower court convicted Mr Alanamu alongside Mr Sulaiman, for collecting and giving a bribe respectively.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Kwasu     Oju Ekun Sarumi     Femi Ogunsola     Kehinde Baale     Ishaq Salman     AbdulHamid Adi     Amuda Bembe     Ayotunde Emmanuel Alao     Kannike     Yekini Adio     Tosin Saraki     Baaziki Sulaiman     Saka Adeyemo     Shonga Farm Project     Abubakar Bature Sulu-Gambari     Danladi     Ajidagba     Yusuf Abubakar     Halidu Danbaba     Quran     Wahab Egbewole     Ilorin Like-Minds     Gambari     Tunji Ajanaku     JUSUN     AbdulQowiy Olododo     National Information Technology Development Agency     Fola Consultant     Kazeem Adekanye     Post-utme     Ola Falade     Timothy Olatunde Fadipe     Jide Oyinloye     Kubra Kazum     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     Mahe Abdulkadir     Najim Yaasin     Sobi     Oloje     Monkey Pox     Yemi Sanni     Kulende-UITH     Olupako Of Share     Ilorin Likeminds Foundation     Awili Pedro     Abdulmumini Jawondo     Adolescent Girls Initiative For Learning And Empowerment     Abdulganiyu Oladosu     Modibbo Kawu     Simon Sayomi     Apado     Wasiu Odewale     Afetu Of Alabe     Moses Salami     Abdulrahman Abdullahi Kayode     Council Of The Wise     Barakat Community Secondary School     Bilikis Oladimeji     Balogun Fulani     Babatunde Ishola Babaita     Oniye     Budo Egba     Moses Afolayan     Mohammed Halidu     Mohammed Saidu     Abdulrazaq Magaji     Women For Change And Development Initiative     Al-Hikmah Radio     Bello John Olanrewaju     Adebayo Mohammed Kamaldeen     Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa     KFA     United Nigeria Airline     Kwara Polytechnic     Borgu     Local Government     Olatunde Jare    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Barakat Community Secondary School     Isau     Susan Modupe Oluwole     Mohammed Ibrahim     Alimi Abdulrazaq     IPSAS     Bature Bello     Salami Adekunle     KW-GIS     Taofik Abiodun Ahmed     Basit Olatunji     Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi     NNPP     Baba Idris     Ado Ibrahim     Ashiru     Abdulrasheed Na\'Allah     Suleiman Mora Omar     Bolakale Ayo     Kwara 2015     Abdulwaheed Musa     Folorunsho Alao     Sadiq Buhari     Muyiwa Oladipo Kanu     Abubakar Abdullahi Bata     Minister     Ilorin Anchor Men And Women     Kwara State University Of Education     Jani Ibrahim     Olabanji Orilonishe     Bamidele Adegoke Oladimeji     National Union Of Road Transport Workers     Omar Bolaji Gambari     Sheu Ndanusa Usman     Oyin-Zubair     Clement Yomi Adeboye     Samuel Elizabeth Keatswa     AbdulRasaq Abdulmajeed Alaro     Makama Of Kaiama     Owode Market     Mohammed Halidu     Iyiola Oyedepo     ASUU     Ambassador Kayode Laro     Abdullahi Dasilva Yussuf     Emir Of Yashikira     Ilesha-Baruba     April 11     Shehu Adaramaja     Awoye     Wale Oladepo     Adesina Simon Sodiya     Bluenile Associates     Saka Keji     Yusuf Abubakar     Transition Implementation Committee     TIIDELab     Abdulganiyu Oladosu     Tuesday Assayomo     Kwara Basketball Association     Kehinde Baale     Abdulmumini Sanni Jawondo     Ibrahim Oloriegbe     Ibrahim Abdullahi     Senate President     Monthly Sanitation     Christopher Tunji Ayeni     Muslimah Entrepreneurship Forum     Kayode Issa     KWIRS     David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Durbar     Bank Of Industry     Obuh     Kwara State Television     Nnazua     Towoju