Actress Ibinabo Fiberesima may be in fresh court trouble but she has reportedly said that her team of lawyers will appeal her sack by a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos as the president of Actors Guild of Nigeria (AGN).
A ruling by Justice James Tsoho today (March 16), said the election that ushered the newly-wed into office was conducted against a standing court order in a suit filed by an actor identified as St. Maradona Mikevine.
Mikevine served as the National Treasurer in the factional exco led by Emeka Ike as AGN president and had filed the suit to contest Fiberesima’s election as AGN president. Court papers said that Mikevine asked the court to nullify the election conducted by Ibinabo’s predecessor, Segun Arinze.
Nollywood actor, Emeka Ike, filed the initial suit on July 25, 2013 and Fiberesima was sworn in as AGN president on October 17, 2014.
In 2009, she had reportedly been sentenced to a five-year prison term for the manslaughter, involving the death of a medical doctor, Mr. Suraj Giwa. The sentence had then been handed out by to the former beauty queen by Justice Deborah Oluwayemi of a Lagos High Court.
Delivering her judgment in an appeal by the Lagos State Government against the verdict of an Igbosere Magistrate’s Court, Justice Oluwayemi held that the N100,000 fine imposed by the lower court on Fiberesima was tantamount to judicial recklessness. The judge had said that it was unreasonable for a magistrate to give an option of N100,000 fine to someone who has taken the life of another person through dangerous driving. She was earlier said to have paid the fine.
