{"id":24931,"date":"2016-04-27T02:58:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T02:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/nigeria-ex-mp-sentenced-to-154-years-for\/"},"modified":"2016-04-27T02:58:36","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T02:58:36","slug":"nigeria-ex-mp-sentenced-to-154-years-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/nigeria-ex-mp-sentenced-to-154-years-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria ex-MP sentenced to 154 years for corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{A court in Nigeria has sentenced a former local MP to 154 years in jail for corruption and money laundering.}<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Daudu, from central Kogi State, was found guilty of 77 charges, Nigeria&#8217;s anti-corruption body says.<\/p>\n<p>But the judge ruled that the sentences would run concurrently, meaning Dauda will only spend two years in jail.<\/p>\n<p>Corruption is endemic in Nigeria and so far the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has only managed to secure a handful of convictions.<\/p>\n<p>President Muhammadu Buhari won elections last year, promising to tackle the problem.<\/p>\n<p>A number of prominent officials from the previous government have been arrested and put on trial, but some accuse the president of only targeting the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>The EFCC says Mr Daudu, who was put on trial in 2010, was involved in laundering about $7m (\u00a35m).<\/p>\n<p>Delivering the judgement in Kogi state capital, Lokoja, Justice Inyang Ekwo said the persecution had &#8220;proved its case beyond every reasonable doubt&#8221;, the EFCC said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>It is not immediately clear whether Dauda will appeal against the ruling and whether any of the stolen money was recovered.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11967 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_89447365_d04ce35a-ea6c-4c28-8cc4-de140a8de033.jpg\" alt=\"igeria&#039;s anti-corruption body has only secured a handful of convictions\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A court in Nigeria has sentenced a former local MP to 154 years in jail for corruption and money laundering.} Gabriel Daudu, from central Kogi State, was found guilty of 77 charges, Nigeria&#8217;s anti-corruption body says. But the judge ruled that the sentences would run concurrently, meaning Dauda will only spend two years in jail. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-24931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24931"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=24931"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=24931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}