Former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman, has begun serving his 75-year jail sentence after he was remanded at the Kuje Correctional Centre in Abuja following his dramatic arrest by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
The former minister was brought before the Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday where Justice James Omotosho ordered that his prison sentence should take immediate effect.
Mamman had earlier been convicted over the diversion of public funds amounting to about N33.8 billion while serving as minister under the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari....... .
