Actors Guild of Nigeria President Ibinabo Fiberesima, that was sentenced to a five – year jail term for the death of Suraj Giwa, a Lagos State of Doctor, has been granted N2million bail with two sureties who are residents.
Ibinabo’s lawyers had filed a bail application on the grounds of a serious medical attention.
In 2009 Justice Deborah Oluwayemi of the State High Court had convicted Fiberesima of manslaughter, holding to the fact that her reckless driving was responsible for an auto crash, that claimed the life of one Dr. Giwa Suraj on the Lekki-Epe Expressway.
While sentencing Fiberesima to five years imprisonment,The decision of the State Magistrates’ Court which earlier ordered her to pay N100,000 for the offence was overruled by Justice Oluwayemi.
Dissatisfied with the Judgment, the convict approached the Court of Appeal to nullify the judgment but the court also affirmed it.
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