Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Gombe zonal office, yesterday, secured the conviction of the councillor of Bolari East, Ishiyaku Garba, who was arraigned before Justice Sa’ad Moh’d of a high court in the state on a three-count charge of bribery, The Guardian reports.
The commission acted on intelligence received to arrest Bolari at a polling unit in Gombe during the presidential and National Assembly elections held on Saturday, February 23rd.
He was caught while distributing money to the electorates after casting their votes.
Having pleaded “guilty” to the charges, his counsel, S.A. Mustapha, pleaded for leniency.The trial judge, thereafter, convicted him on the three counts and sentenced him one month with an option of N100,000 fine for count one, one month for count two with an option of N50,000 fine, and one month for count three with an option of N20,000 fine. The prison terms are to run concurrently.
The court ordered that the N295,000 recovered from him be forfeited to the Federal Government
