Convicted ex-Gov Nyame suffers another blow

A former governor of Taraba State, Jolly Nyame, who is currently a serving 14-year jail term in Kuje prison, Abuja, on Wednesday suffered another disappointment.

The High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Gudu, Abuja, threw out an application by the governor seeking for bail on health grounds.

Justice Adebukola Banjoko had on May 30, 2018, convicted Nyame on corruption charges bordering on diversion of over N1billion belonging to Taraba State.

But Nyame had filed an application before the court seeking to be granted bail on health grounds.

When the matter came up in court, Justice Banjoko sacked Nyame’s bail request and ruled that the ex- governor’s application was “unmeritorious.”

According to the judge convicts are never granted bail except only under “exceptional circumstances,” which could include ill health.

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Accepting that Nyame’s application for bail was hinged on the grounds of ill health, Justice Banjoko however held that there were no credible materials made available to the court by the convict to warrant granting his request.

Basically, Nyame had contended in his request that he was being denied access to traditional herbal medicine he was using to treat himself of hypertension and diabetes before his conviction.

It would be recalled that a former governor of Adamawa State, Mr Bala Ngilari, who was on March 6, 2018 sentenced to five years in prison without an option of fine, was on later granted bail in the sum of N100million.

Ngilari was imprisoned following his trial on the violation of the Public Procurement Act in the award of contract for the procurement of 25 vehicles at the cost of N167million.

He was later discharged and acquitted by an Appeal Court sitting in Yola, the Adamawa State capital.

 

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