UPDATED: Court discharges Adoke, Abubakar, five others over Malabu oil deal

A High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Jabi has discharged former Attorney General of the Federation , Mohammed Adoke and six others charged with alleged fraudulent conduct in the handling of the controversial Oil Prospecting License 245 .

The judge, who noted that the 40-count charge, marked: CR/151/2020 was poorly drafted and prosecuted, warned the prosecuting counsel to refrain from filing such charge in future. “On the whole, the prosecution has failed to prove the essential elements of the offences for which the Defendants were charged and accordingly, the no case to answer submission has considerable merit and must be sustained.

“In other words, the prosecution has failed to make out a prima facie case against the defendants, in that they have failed to tender required minimum evidence to establish the essential clements of all the counts of the offences that they have been charged with respectively. In counts three, the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th defendants were charged with the offence of abetting the 1st defendant to disobey the direction of the law by saving them from charges of taxes to which they are liable, by law, to the Federal Government, contrary to the provision of Section 85 of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 123 of the same Act.

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