In this News article from allAfrica.com, posted on May 20th 2010, an american Woman was imprisoned for curency smuggling in Nigeria. Sharon Thorpe, along with her boyfriend, Nigerian Femi Atoms, and one other accomplice, were charged with 13 accounts of forging cheques, apparaised at $700,000, and smuggleing them out of the country. Sharon plead Guilty, but Femi is still at large. The accomplice plead not guilty, and is now in custody awaiting trial. Sharon has been charged with 26 years of hard labor.
This Sort of action by the nigerian Government shows that they are willing to prosecute anyone, even foreigners from ally countries, to the full extent of Nigerian law. This will give the anti corruption stance of the government an increased amount of legitimacy.
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