The court held that Ajumogobia is no longer a serving judicial officer and so, could face the criminal charge brought against her by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Consequent upon striking out of the charge, EFCC preferred same charges against the defendants, before the Federal High Court. In the same vein, second defence counsel, Chief Ferdinard Orbih had also drawn the court”s attention to pending motions before the court seeking to separate the charges in favour of the second defendant.Delivering his ruling on Friday, Aikawa read out a memo dated November 7, 2018, signed by the President, approving the dismissal of the first defendant from the Bench as recommended by the National Judicial Council.
He held that the document exhibit EFCC 02, though marked ‘Restricted’ but bearing the coat of arm of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, qualified as a public document.Obla had sought an order to quash counts one, two and three of the charge for abuse of court process or in the alternative separate his trial from the charge against the first defendant and be tried separately.“I, therefore, refuse the second application,” he said.
They were alleged to have conspired to retain in the same account, the sum of N500 million, which they both reasonably ought to have known formed part of proceeds of unlawful acts of unlawful enrichment.
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