Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

Alleged N29b Fraud: EFCC Closes Case Against Nyako, Others

At the resumed trial on Wednesday, November 13, 2019, in the alleged N29billion money laundering charge against a former Adamawa State governor, Murtala Nyako and eight others, before Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja, prosecution counsel, Rotimi Jacobs, SAN, informed the court of the prosecution’s decision to close its case. The prosecution had on Tuesday, November 5, 2019, called its last witness, Mr. Kobis, who testified via a video link from London. However, Yakubu Maikyau, SAN, counsel to the 3rd defendant, who had applied to the court to recall three prosecution witness…