JOS — A Federal High Court sitting in Jos, the Plateau State capital has jailed a former Minister of Water Resources, Mrs. Sarah Ochekpe, former Deputy Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Plateau state, Raymond Dabo, and Evangelist Leo Sunday Jitung to three months imprisonment each.
The three had been standing trial for the past four years on charges bordering on conspiracy and money laundering.
However, the sentence has an option of a fine of N1 million.
Justice Musa Kurna delivered the judgment on Tuesday.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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