The Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced a former registrar of the court to 10 years imprisonment for defrauding a former Chief of Army Staff, General Ishaya Bamaiyi (Rtd)
The convict, Mrs Oluronke Rosulu was a former registrar to Justice Joseph Oyewole who is presently a judge of the Court of Appeal.
She was prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on a two-count charge of conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretences.
The commission put the amount at 8.4 million Dollars.
During the trial, the EFCC presented evidence of a polygraph test administered on the convict by polygraph experts from the commission’s Internal Affairs Department.
The EFCC said that it was the first time a polygraph evidence would be admitted in a criminal trial in Nigeria.
The former registrar was initially charged alongside a Lagos socialite, Fred Ajudua, before Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye of the same court for defrauding General Bamaiyi of the said amount of money while he was detained in Kirikiri Maximum Prison on charges of the attempted murder of the late Publisher of Guardian Newspapers, Chief Alex Ibru.
She was specifically said to have aided Ajudua to defraud Bamaiyi of the said sum under the false pretence that it was a part payment for the professional fees purportedly charged by Chief Afe Babalola (SAN) to handle his case, while both of them were being remanded at Kirikiri Maximum Prison between November 2004 and June 2005.
Mrs Rosulu opted for a separate trial and was arraigned before Justice Lateef Lawal-Akapo on April 20, 2015.
In his judgment on Monday, Justice Lawal-Akapo held that the prosecution successfully proved the charges against the accused person as some incriminating documents linking her with Ajudua were found in her house after a search was conducted, which was contrary to her testimony that she had no dealings with him.
The court also held that it believed the evidence of a prosecution witness, ACP Garuba Abdullahi, who testified that the accused visited Ajudua in prison three times.
The former court registrar’s defence of alibi did not succeed as she failed to lead evidence on where she was instead of her denying to have visited the prison.
The judge sentenced the accused to 10 years each on both counts of conspiracy and obtaining money under false pretences, ruling that the sentences would run concurrently.
Information source:channels
Information source:channels
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