The Federal Government, yesterday, arraigned a property developer, Mr. Cecil Osakwe, before Justice Binta Mutala-Nyako of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja over alleged electricity theft.
Osakwe, the Managing director of Abeh Signatures, a property development company, however, pleaded not guilty to the two-count charge preferred against him by the Federal Government.
Osakwe has, through his counsel, filed a motion seeking to stay the arraignment on the ground that the special investigative task force on electricity set up by the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF and Minister of Justice was unlawful. Counsel to the defendant, after a plea of not guilty taken by his client, brought an application for his client’s bail on the ground of self-recognition.
In the suit, marked FHC/ABJ/CR/331/2022, the Federal Government had filed a criminal charge against a property developer, Mr. Cecil Osakwe, over alleged N11m electricity theft.
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