The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has re-arraigned a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, and three others before Justice Jude Okeke of a Federal Capital Te
rritory High Court, Maitama.
They were earlier arraigned before Justice Okeke on February 13, 2019, and the prosecution was meant to open its case. However, citing Section 218 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, ACJA 2015, Akin Olujimi, SAN, counsel for Lawal, argued that “before the charge is taken, the prosecution ought to have filed the amended charge to ensure that it was properly endorsed.”Justice Okeke, while ordering the prosecution to comply with the section cited by Olujimi, however, ruled that in the interim, the amended charges should be read to the defendants.
A statement by the acting EFCC spokesman, Tony Orilade, said the accused persons pleaded ‘not guilty’ to the amended charges.
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