Dokpesi was alleged to have received N2.1b from the office of the National Security Adviser between October 2014 and March 2015 under Sambo Dasuki for services not rendered.
The Guardian recalled that on November 21, 2018, Justice John Tsoho had struck out Dokpesi’s no-case submission and ordered him to open his defence, but Dokpesi had approached the appellate court to seek reversal of the lower court’s decision.Delivering judgment in the appeal, Justice Elfrieda Williams-Dawodu of the appellate court, held that the prosecution failed to establish a prima facie case against the appellants.
“The predicate offence is an earlier offence upon which the offence being tried is based. The first respondent has woefully failed to show a prior establishment of the predicate offences in this case.