Emefiele asks court to dismiss $6.23m procurement fraud charges

A erstwhile politician of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele, has asked the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory to quash the $6.23 cardinal procurement fraud charges brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

He argued connected Monday that his continued proceedings implicit the alleged economical transgression was successful atrocious faith, claiming that nary of the witnesses called by the EFCC oregon the grounds presented linked him to the charges.

His telephone for the dismissal of the charges followed a nary lawsuit submission argued connected his behalf by his pb counsel, Mathew Burkaa, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN.

At Tuesday's proceedings, Burkaa, portion laying the instauration for the nary lawsuit submission, argued that the EFCC's lawsuit successful counts 1 to 14 was that Emefiele had conferred an unfair vantage connected his adjacent associates, including his woman and in-law.

According to him, nary of the witnesses presented by the anti-graft bureau established that Emefiele benefited from the alleged transactions oregon manipulated the Tenders Board Committee to grant contracts to 2 companies astatine the centre of the allegations.

Burkaa told the tribunal that the lone happening the prosecution was capable to found was that Emefiele, arsenic caput of the CBN, issue...