Beyond jailing Prof for election fraud

TWO years later, the long arm of the law caught up with a professor of soil science at the University of Calabar, Peter Ogban, when a High Court in Akwa Ibom presided over by Justice Augustine Odokwo, found him guilty of electoral fraud and sentenced him to three years in prison with a N100,000 fine.

The lecturer had pleaded in vain for mercy from the Judge.

Ogban was one of the so-called…