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CORRUPTION: Ex-Gov Nnamani floors EFCC in court for lack of valid charges

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CORRUPTION: Ex-Gov Nnamani floors EFCC in court for lack of valid charges

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has lost its corruption case against former Enugu State governor, Chimaroke Nnamani, before the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos.

The EFCC lost the case after the presiding judge, Justice Chuka Obiozor ,struck out the charges the anti-graft agency leveled against the former governor for lack of “proper charges”.

The judge’s ruling came after it was proved that the affidavit filed by Mr. Nnamani that the court had entered judgment in the same suit on July 5, 2015, by another judge, Mohammed Yunusa was true.

Earlier, Rickey Tarfa (SAN), counsel to Mr. Nnamani, had told the court that the defendant filed a motion disclosing the facts that this case has been put to rest by Mr. Yunusa in his judgment suit no FHc/L/09c/07.

Tarfa explained that parties in the suit had entered a plea bargain before Mr. Yunusa, and therefore contended that the charges before the trial judge filed by the EFCC, was not valid, as the court cannot sit on appeal for the case of another judge of concurrent jurisdiction.

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But the EFCC prosecutor, Kelvin Uzozie, contended that he had looked at the affidavits filed by the defendant in the case and was praying that the entire proceedings be obliterated to enable him file fresh charges against Mr. Nnamani.

After listening to the arguments, the judge in his ruling held, “I agree that in view of the plea bargain judgment of this court delivered on the 7th of July, 2015, that there is no valid charge before me and I thereby expunge the entire proceedings before me.”

 

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