Justice James Omotosho of the Federal High Court on Wednesday sentenced former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman, to 75 years imprisonment in absentia over a N33.8bn money laundering and fraud case instituted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
The court convicted Mamman on all 12 counts filed against him by the anti-graft agency, holding that the prosecution proved its case beyond reasonable doubt.
Justice Omotosho ordered that the prison terms would run consecutively and not concurrently, bringing the total jail term to 75 years.
In Count One of the charges, the anti-graft agency stated “That you, SALEH MAMMAN (Male), sometime in 2019… whilst you were the Minister of Power, conspired with other officials of your ministry and some private companies to indirectly convert the total sum of N33,804,830,503.73 (Thirty-Three Billion, Eight Hundred and Four Million, Eight Hundred and Thirty Thousand, Five Hundred and Three Naira, and Seventy-Three Kobo).”