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Military General Sentence To Seven Years Imprisonment By A Court-Martial Yesterday, the Special Army Court-martial in Abuja sentenced Maj Gen Umaru Mohammed, former Group Managing Director of Nigerian Army Properties Limited, to seven years for fraud. President of the Special Court Martial, Major General James Myam, read the sentences and ordered the convicted senior officer to refund the Nigerian Army the sum of $2,053,200 and N1,690,000. Mohammed was charged with eighteen counts of Stealing, forgery, misappropriation, and conspiracy. The sentences passed on him amounted to 49 years imprisonment, but the court announced that the sentences would run concurrently. As a result, the sentence was reduced to seven years. The army general pleaded not guilty to all the allegations, but the court found him guilty of 14 out of 18 charges. Despite being considered a wealthy army general, the judge described Umar Mohammed's crimes as "the most fearless case of fraud ever recorded in the

  The US has projected itself as the global leader of democracy through its powerful mass media, huge economy and lavish military expenditures. A closer look reveals that the country requires extensive reform before it can claim to be a true democracy. Democratic reform should begin with the presidency. T he presidency of the  United States  has a surprisingly undemocratic selection process. In my previous article on American democracy, I pointed out that the president is not elected by popular vote but by the electoral college and how, over time, the presidential election process has become corrupt.  America's founding fathers feared the presidency's evolution into an imperial office. In fact, that fear was the driving force behind the  separation  of powers into three distinct branches of government: the executive, the legislative, and the judiciary. We traditionally call this the " checks and balances " system. Each component of government can challenge the actions