Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC
$9.8m Fraud: Court Orders Yakubu, Ex-NNPC GMD to Open Defence July 3
Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the Federal High Court, Abuja has ordered Andrew Yakubu, a former General Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, to open his defence on July 3, 2019 in the $9.8 million fraud allegation brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. Yakubu had through his counsel, Ahmed Raji, SAN, filed a no-case submission on December 5, 2018 arguing that the evidence led by the prosecution’s seven witnesses did not establish a case against him, and so the charges should be dismissed. The EFCC had through its counsel, M.S.
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