A special military court martial led by , AVM
James Gbum has demoted Maj.-Gen. Ibrahim
Sani, one time Chief of Transformation and
Innovation Centre of the Nigerian Army, to a
Brigadier-General.
Sani was demoted after the court convicted
him on a five-count charge bordering on
cheating. Sani had been standing trial in the
court since 2015 after he was accused of
dividing and allocating part of army land to
himself.
The court also ordered the convict to return
N23 million being the money he got after he
sold the part of the army land to himself. The
court held that the convict fraudulently
allocated to himself part of the land – 436
hectares, in Abuja and sold it.
Counsel to Sani, Mr Paul Sule (SAN), said that
he would appeal to the army council to
quash the sentence. Sule also said that
should the council refuse to quash the
sentence; he would approach the Court of
Appeal to do that.
