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Ex-NIMASA Boss Omatseye Appeals 5-year Jail Sentence

Farouk Mohammed
By Farouk Mohammed
Published: May 23, 2016
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Former Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration Safety Agency (NIMASA), Raymond Temisan Omatseye who was sentenced to 5 years imprisonment by Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia of a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has appealed the sentence.

According to Vanguard, Omatseye made the appeal through his lawyer, Edoka Onyeke, arguing that he was persecuted and not prosecuted.

Edoka said that though contract splitting exists in the law, the approval above threshold does not exist.

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“Interestingly, the judge who had been transferred to the Kwara State jurisdiction threw out a January 23, 2013 letter from the Bureau of Public Procurement, BPP, which cleared Omatseye of any wrong doing while in the agency. The letter addressed to former President Goodluck Jonathan, signed by  Emeka Ezeh, former DG of BPP informed the president that after a scrutiny of the case, the Bureau was of the view that the 27 count charges were breaches brought under sections of the procurement Act that deals with administrative breaches rather than real offences under the Act that can attract conviction or sanctions from the regular courts.

However in delivering the judgement, Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia surprisingly jettisoned the report admitted as evidence in court, while relying on a secret circular issued in 2007 by the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation. She discharged and acquitted Omatseye on a three count charge bordering on contract splitting, while sentencing him to five years imprisonment on 23-count charge of N2.5million approval above his threshold, which doesn’t exist in law,” Edoka said.

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