First of all, the case was between Lagos state Government Vs Ibinabo Febresima but not Giwa Vs Ibinabo Febresima. On this faithful day of Feb 26th 2006 along the Lekki Epe Express way, my late brother Dr Giwa was driving with his brother and another family friend in his car coming from a meeting in Ajah, they were held up in a traffic around the evening time, when this tragic accident happened.
Ibinabo was driving towards Lekki while the late Dr Giwa was
coming from the other direction facing towards Island, just by
shop-rite, when ibinabo's jeep flipped and lost control from her lane
jumped over the culvert or pavement that demarcate the road from the on
coming vehicle. The speed that skipped and flipped a jeep over the
road demarcation will be considered "Reckless and Endangerment" because
the VIO dept checked the jeep brakes, the engine and all the mechanical
and electrical of the jeep but the result shows nothing wrong with the
jeep and confirm that the accident as due to "OVER SPEEDING" in which
the result was on record.
After
the accident, Ibinabo left the scene of the accident without checking
for any survivors, she took the license plate and registration out of
the car and fled from the scene, that was considered "HIT AND RUN". The
people at the scene of the accident recognized her as Ibinabo Febresima,
and stated she was drunk."Driving Under Influence" of whatever she had.
The State Department of Transportation has to use the VIN number to
locate the Owner of the jeep, in which the owner was Daniel Wilson. That
was my very first time of hearing the name of Ibinabo Febresima.The
Doctor died at the scene of the accident because the jeep was on top of
the Honda accord driven by him and they couldn't save him on time
because of the seat belt and the weight of the jeep, the brother and the
other family friend in that car had survived. Did she know the state of
mind and the emotional instability of the people involved in that
accident up till now, Ibinabo has never been in a Comma.
After all the evidences against her, with the result of the VIO by the
State department of Transportation, The DPP office took over and charged
her to court and she hired Festus Kiamo in which after reviewing the
case he withdrew by saying he cannot represent her because it's a bad
case.
Doctor Giwa has a living
mother for goodness sake, wife with 3 children's, Ibinabo deprived him
from seeing his children graduate from university and getting married,
also from being the one to bury his mother at her old age, "Whereas no
one ever prayed that on the day of their children's success and
happiness they should replaced them with someone else".
Ibinabo was never remorseful, they brought her to meet with me shortly
after my brother's death in GRA Ikeja before my return back to the USA,
but her only concern then was to drop the charges against her. I told
her that it's not my family Vs her but the State Vs her, that where I
come from in USA that we do not interfere with the justice system, that
they should do their job and advise her to apologize publicly to the
masses and to the family and throw herself to the mercy of the court.
She said and l quote "I CAN'T DO THAT, BECAUSE IS GOING TO DAMAGE MY
CAREER" what an ego, she cannot apologize publicly, I feel like kicking
her ass. She's worried about her stupid career, What happened to the
career of the Doctor, who happened to be a 'MEDICAL DIRECTOR AND THE
HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL REHABILITATION MEDICINE AT GENERAL
HOSPITAL LAGOS.
People say there is no
justice in Nigeria, but it does once in awhile. The lower court
magistrate O.A Isaac found her guilty with the option of 100,000.00
Naira, which is considered a judicial recklessness, 100k does not even
buy an iPad, the life of someone does not worth more that 100k, so that
people will take the liberty of committing crimes. Later Justice
Deborah Oluwayemi of the High court find her guilty and overturn the
option of fine and gave her 5 yrs in prison, she spent 3 weeks and came
out on bail to go to Court of Appeal, however, how can a convicted
person came out on bail, here in USA you will be in jail and they will
transport you to and from each time you have an hearing. Finally Appeal
court found her guilty and sentence her to 5 years imprisoned.
Let her face the wrath, it is said that you can run but can't hide,
it's a law of Kama that catch up, This will serve as a deterrent to
others. Who will believe after 10yrs she will still be slammed, The
Family of the late Dr Giwa had moved on with our life's, She was
forgiven, it was very difficult and painful, but God gave us especially
his mother and children the fortitude to bear the loss.
On behalf of our families and friends, we really thank the
Lagos State Government, The attorney general Mr Sasore, DPP Mrs Odutola
and colleagues, Justice Deborah Oluwayemi, Justice Jamilu Yammama Tukur,
Justice U.I Udukwe-Anyawu and Justice Tijani Abubakar and everyone for
their support, no evil shall befall anyone, as you all go out and come
in, may God's grace and protection abide with each and everyone.
'JUSTICE AT LAST' !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JUSTICE AT LAST !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JUSTICE IS FINALLY DONE !!!!!!!!!!!!.
"IBINABO HAS NEVER PAID A DIME TO ANY FAMILY MEMBER OF THE LATE DR GIWA
AS INDICATED BY HER FRIEND'S, AND IF SHE DID PAY ANY FAMILY MEMBER, SHE
NEEDS TO START MENTIONING NAMES NOW".
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