Afrigather April 22, 2024 8:13 PM
Bobrisky’s lawyer is asking the court docket to exchange the sentence with an choice of ₦50,000 nice on every of the counts.
The controversial cross-dresser, Idris Okuneye, popularly generally known as Bobrisky, on Monday, filed a discover of enchantment difficult the six months most sentence given to him by a Federal Excessive Courtroom, Lagos.
Okuneye was charged by the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC) on 4 counts bordering on naira abuse.
He pleaded responsible earlier than Justice A.O. Awogboro of the Federal Excessive Courtroom, Lagos.
Justice Awogboro, on April 12, sentenced Okuneye to 6 months imprisonment with out an choice of nice.
The choose whereas sentencing the convict stated the judgment ought to function a deterrent to others keen on abusing and mutilating the naira.
Nonetheless, counsel for Okuneye, Bimbo Kusanu, filed a discover of enchantment, praying the Courtroom of Enchantment to put aside the utmost sentence.
Kusanu is asking the court docket to exchange the sentence with an choice of ₦50,000 nice on every of the counts.
The counsel said within the discover of enchantment that the trial court docket imposed the utmost sentence on the appellant, who had no earlier prison file of conviction.
He said that there have been choices to impose a lesser sentence by the provisions of the Administration of Legal Justice Act (ACJA).
He averred that the sentence imposed by the trial court docket towards the appellant was punitive and opposite to the obligatory provisions of the ACJA.
The appellant said that the trial court docket didn’t take into account the constructive antecedent of the appellant, who didn’t waste the time of the court docket by pleading responsible to the cost.
He said that the appellant honoured the invitation of the respondent on the primary invitation.
He stated the trial court docket did not train its discretion judiciously and judicially in sentencing the appellant.
He defined that such an act had occasioned a miscarriage of justice towards the appellant.
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