Posted on: 09:51 Sat, 12 Mar 2016



Popular actress, Ibinabo Fiberesima
was today Friday, March 11, 2016
sentenced to 5 years imprisonment by
Justice Deborah Oluwayemi. Ibinabo
was visibly apprehensive throughout
the proceeding and burst into tears
immediately the judgment was
delivered.

Actress Ibinabo Fiberesima has been
slammed a 5-year jail term by The
Court of Appeal in Lagos on Friday.

Justice Jamilu Yammama Tukur
delivered the decision on Friday,
saying that the appeal was shallow
and lacked merit.

She (Ibinabo) was alleged to have
knocked down a staff of Lagos State
hospital, Giwa Suraj as a result of
reckless driving on the Lekki-Epe
Expressway in February, 2006.


The Nollywood actress had already
been fined N100,000 by a
Magistrate court, a decision that
was overruled by the High Court.

Justice Oluwayemi of the trial Court
replaced the fine with a five year
jail term, saying that the Magistrate
exercised “judicial recklessness” by
giving the option of a fine.

She appealed the case, but
according to Vanguard newspaper,
her appeal was dismissed; thus
setting her on the path to a 5-year
jail term.

Source: Vanguard