Nigeria: EFCC - No Plea Bargain for Ex-Governors

9 October 2011

Former governors on the corruption list of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, would, on conviction, be clamped in jail and would not be granted the reprieve of plea bargaining, the commission has declared.

The commission has, meanwhile, confirmed that it has placed former Gombe State governor Danjuma Goje on its "watch list". It also confirmed that ex-governors of Oyo, Ogun and Nasarawa states Adebayo Alao-Akala, Gbenga Daniel and Aliyu Akwe Doma might be arraigned in court tomorrow.

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