IN THE HIGH COURT OF THE FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY
IN THE ABUJA JUDICIAL DIVISION
HOLDEN AT ABUJA
BEFORE HIS LORDSHIP HON. JUSTICE A.A.I. BANJOKO- JUDGE
CHARGE NO: FCT/HC/CR/82/07
BETWEEN:
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA…………………….COMPLAINANT
AND
JOLLY TEVORU NYAME……………………………………DEFENDANT
ROTIMI JACOBS SAN WITH O. ATOLAGBE; H.O. EJIGA FOR THE
PROSECUTION
LATEEF FAGBEMI SAN; CHARLES UWENSUYI EDONSANWAN SAN; H.T.
FAJIMITE; OLALEKAN OJO; ALH. A. YUSUF, FOR THE DEFENCE
JUDGMENT
Reverend Jolly Tevoru Nyame, a Three-Term Former Governor of Taraba
State is charged before this Court on a Forty-One Count Charge dated the
13th July 2007 for the Offences of Criminal Breach of Trust; Criminal
Misappropriation; Gratification and Obtaining a Thing of Value without
Consideration and these Charges are set out as follows: COUNT 1
That you JOLLY TEVORU NYAME between January and February, 2005 at
Abuja in the Abuja Judicial Division of the High Court of the Federal Capital
Territory, while being the Governor of Taraba State of Nigeria and in such
capacity entrusted with dominion over certain Property to wit: the Sum of
N250, 000,000.00 (Two Hundred and Fifty Million Naira) meant for the
Purchase of Stationeries by the Taraba State Government committed
Criminal Breach of Trust in respect of the said Sum and you thereby
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