{"id":387201,"date":"2011-04-21T23:01:26","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T23:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/21\/court-reserves-ruling-on-lafiaji%e2%80%99s-appeal\/"},"modified":"2011-04-21T23:01:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T23:01:26","slug":"court-reserves-ruling-on-lafiajis-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/21\/court-reserves-ruling-on-lafiajis-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Court reserves ruling on Lafiaji\u2019s appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"56\">\n<p><strong>By Innocent Anaba<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>LAGOS \u2013 The Court of Appeal, Lagos, has reserved judgment on the appeals by convicted former Chairman of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Alhaji Bello Lafiaji and his ex-Special Assistant, Usman Amali.<\/p>\n<p>A Lagos High Court had sentenced Lafiaji, to 16 years imprisonment for abuse of office and conspiracy, while his aide, Usman Amali, bagged seven-year jail term.<\/p>\n<p>The appellants counsel had at the resumed hearing in the case, urged the court to allow the appeal and set aside the judgment of the lower court on the ground that the said judgment was read straight from laptop and was thereafter downloaded and signed by the judge.<\/p>\n<p>According to the appellants, such a procedure did not comply with Section 279 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos state, 2008.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Comments are moderated. Please keep them clean and brief.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>More here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vanguardngr.com\/2011\/04\/court-reserves-ruling-on-lafiajis-appeal\/\" title=\"Court reserves ruling on Lafiaji\u2019s appeal\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Court reserves ruling on Lafiaji\u2019s appeal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> By Innocent Anaba LAGOS \u2013 The Court of Appeal, Lagos, has reserved judgment on the appeals by convicted former Chairman of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Alhaji Bello Lafiaji and his ex-Special Assistant, Usman Amali. A Lagos High Court had sentenced Lafiaji, to 16 years imprisonment for abuse of office and conspiracy, while his aide, Usman Amali, bagged seven-year jail term<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-387201","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Court reserves ruling on Lafiaji\u2019s appeal - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/21\/court-reserves-ruling-on-lafiajis-appeal\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Court reserves ruling on Lafiaji\u2019s appeal - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"By Innocent Anaba LAGOS \u2013 The Court of Appeal, Lagos, has reserved judgment on the appeals by convicted former Chairman of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Alhaji Bello Lafiaji and his ex-Special Assistant, Usman Amali. 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