Nollywood Popular Actress, Ibinabo Fiberesima Sentenced to 5 years Imprisonment.

Ibinabo Fiberesima.

NIGERIA: Nollywood Popular actress, Ibinabo Fiberesima was on Friday, March 11, 2016 sentenced to 5 years imprisonment by Justice Deborah Oluwayemi. Ibinabo was visibly apprehensive throughout the proceeding and burst into tears immediately the judgment was delivered.

The embattled president of the Actors’ Guild of Nigeria (AGN) was sentenced by Justice Deborah Oluwayemi for reckless driving which caused the death of Suraj in an auto accident along the Lekki-Epe Expressway, Lagos.

Speaking on the judgement, her lawyer, Nnaemeka Amaechina, said it would be challenged at the Supreme Court adding that a Notice of Appeal had been filed already. But according to Vanguard newspaper, her appeal was dismissed; thus setting her on the path to a 5-year jail term.

The Nollywood actress had already been fined N100,000 by a Magistrate court, a decision that was overruled by the High Court. Justice Oluwayemi of the trial Court replaced the fine with a five year jail term, saying that the Magistrate exercised “judicial recklessness” by giving the option of a fine.