ABUJA— The Registrar of a Magistrate’s Court in Enugu State, Anikwu Ifesinachi has been sentenced to three years imprisonment for demanding bribe in the course of discharging his official duty.
Justice A. A. Nwobodo of Enugu High Court convicted and sentenced Ifesinachi without an option of fine.
The registrar was accused of demanding N80,000 bribe from the relation of a suspect before he would process the warrant of release.
The relation went to ICPC and reported, he was then given marked money which he gave to Ifesinachi.
Immediately the convict received the bribe, he was arrested by operatives of the commission and subsequently charged.
Ifesinachi was arraigned by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, on a two-count charge of demanding and receiving bribe.
