Actress Ibinabo Fiberesima is guilty Appeal court upheld her 5years jail term.

 

The Court of appeal in Lagos on yesterday threw out an appeal by Nollywood actress and President of Actors guild of Nigeria, Ibinabo Fiberesima challenging a jail term slammed on her by a Lagos court.

Ibinabo was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment by Justice Deborah Oluwayemi of a Lagos court for reckless driving that resulted to the death of a hospital workers.


She was according to own driven her automobile carelessly on the Lekki-Epe state highway and knocked down a person, Giwa Suraj.

Suraj was aforementioned to be a workers of a city state’s hospital.

A functionary court (court of 1st instance) had earlier given the appellant an fine of N100, 000 fine for the offence. The judgment of the lower court was, however, put aside by the high court that replaced the choice of fine with a jail term.

Fiberesima had filed an appeal through her attorney, Nnaemeka Amaechina, urging the court to line aside the five-year sentence. Delivering judgment on yesterday friday, the {appellate court|appeals court|court of attractivenesss|court|tribunal|judicature} discharged Fiberisima’s appeal and upheld the choice of the Lagos court.

Justice Jamilu Yammama Tukur, in his finding control that the trial Lower Court lacked the discretion to own granted Ibinabo a fine of fine having been condemned.

The court more control that the appeal lacked benefit and consequently discharged it.