14 Years After Arrest, Former Jigawa State Governor’s Son To Forfeit 25 Percent Of Undeclared $40,000

<h4>14 Years After Arrest<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<h4><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reports that the supreme court has dismissed an appeal filed by Aminu Sule Lamido&comma; son of Sule Lamido&comma; former governor of Jigawa state&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The appeal had challenged the decision of the trial court&comma; which convicted him for failing to declare &dollar;40&comma;000 at an airport&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission &lpar;EFCC&rpar; arrested Aminu on December 11&comma; 2012&comma; at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport&comma; as he made to board a flight to Cairo in Egypt&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The prosecution stated that Aminu declared &dollar;10&comma;000 to the Nigeria Customs Service &lpar;NCS&rpar;&comma; but was found to have an additional &dollar;40&comma;000&comma; which was not disclosed on his currency declaration form&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The EFCC had charged him before the federal high court in Kano on a one-count offence of false declaration of foreign currency&comma; contrary to provisions of the Money Laundering &lpar;Prohibition&rpar; Act&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;On July 12&comma; 2015&comma; the federal high court convicted Aminu and ordered him to forfeit 25 percent of the undeclared sum to the federal government&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Dissatisfied with the ruling&comma; he approached the court of appeal in Kaduna to overturn the conviction and set aside the forfeiture order&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; in a judgment delivered on December 7&comma; 2015&comma; the court of appeal dismissed Aminu’s appeal and upheld the decision of the trial court&comma; resolving all the issues raised against him&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Still aggrieved&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;thecable&period;ng&sol;">Aminu<&sol;a> approached the supreme court&comma; seeking to nullify the judgments of the lower courts and quash his conviction&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; in a unanimous judgment on Friday&comma; the apex court panel dismissed the appeal and affirmed the verdict of the two lower courts&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;