According to Vanguard, A National Youth Service Corps member,
Helen Bando, was yesterday sentenced to one year imprisonment by an Ikeja High
Court for using forged documents to process an Indian visa,
Her accomplices Samuel Obiakor and Segun Alimi were also jailed one year each after pleading
guilty to the charge during their re-arraignment by the Independent Corrupt
Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC).The ICPC said the defendants conspired to submit forged documents to the Indian High Commission sometime in 2013 to enable Bando obtain the country’s visa.
Justice Olutoyin Ipaye ruled that each of the defendants will pay a N50, 000 fine and will be sentenced to a maximum of six months imprisonment.
The judge said the desperation of the first defendant (Bando) to travel outside Nigeria made her to conspire with the others to submit forged documents to the Indian High Commission.
Ipaye said the action of the defendants had brought the country into disrepute and could lead to the denial of visas to other Nigerians with genuine intentions of travelling.
The judge held that Bando’s sentence would begin from the day of the judgment, while those of the other convicts would commence in June 2014 when they were first remanded in prison.
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