The report said that Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye, of the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja, while sentencing them on Monday, said the trio deserved their punishment in spite of their plea bargain.
According to her, such cases have become rampant and giving the country a bad name just as it was destroying the chances of other Nigerians with genuine intentions to travel out.
According to the Independent Corrupt Practices and other related offences Commission (ICPC) alleged that the convicts conspired to submit forged documents to the Indian High Commission sometime in 2013 to enable Bando obtain the country’s visa.
The convicts the pleaded guilty to the crime and entered a plea bargain with the ICPC which would have only earned them a N50,000 fine and a maximum of six months in prison. The begged for mercy saying that they were committing the crime for the first time and would never go back to it if set free.
But Justice Ipaye maintained that the court was not bound by the plea bargain, adding that Section 75 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Law of Lagos State was only to guide the court.
She therefore ruled that Bando’s term would commence on Monday while her accomplices’ terms would be backdated to June 2014 when they were first remanded in prison.
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