Nollywood Actress Ibinabo Fiberesima Sent Back To Jail Denied Bail

Sentenced actress and former beauty queen Miss Ibinabo Fiberesima, who is currently serving a five-year jail term for manslaughter, was denied bail yesterday 17th March 2016 by the Court of Appeal in Lagos. Despite a six-paragraph affidavit of urgency stating that Ms. Fiberesima is currently recovering from a breast tumor-removal surgery and requires medical attention presented by her lawyers

The Affidavit reads “Her wound has not fully healed and as such she is afraid that her continued stay in prison may endanger her life, as she will not have access to special medical attention.it stated  that it would be in the interest of justice and for her health to admit Ms. Fiberesima is granted bail pending the hearing and determination of her appeal to the Supreme Court.
The Nollywood Actress and former President of the Actors Guild was sentenced to 5 years in prison by Justice Deborah Oluwayemi of a Lagos High Court, for reckless driving and manslaughter. Ibinabo was alleged to have been under the influence of alcohol recklessly driven a car which resulted in a ghastly accident along the Lekki-Epe expressway, Lagos, killing one Giwa Suraj who was said to be a resident doctor at Lagos State government hospital.
At sitting for the bail application for the condemned ex beauty queen, the three-man panel of judges, headed by Justice U.I. Ndukwe-Anyanwu, ruled that Ibinabo’s bail application was incomplete, as she failed to attach to her application, copies of the judgment affirming the five-year jail sentence imposed on her by a Lagos High Court. Consequently, the presiding judge, Justice Ndukwe-Anyanwu said the only option left was to strike out the application or adjourn it to a further date for a hearing.
The court subsequently adjourned hearing on the bail application to April 7 2016, after Mr Amaechina her lead counsel asked the court for adjournment to enable him correct the bail application.