A federal high court in Lagos has struck out the firearm charges against the suspended governor of the central bank of Nigeria, Godwin emefiele.
Justice Nicholas oweibo struck out the charge for want of diligent prosecution, following the withdrawal application made by the director of public prosecution of the ministry of justice, Mohammed Abubakar.
At the last adjourned date, the DPP made an oral application to the court to withdraw the charge against Emefiele on the grounds of insufficient evidence.
Earlier, the arraignment of emefiele, over n6.9 billion alleged procurement fraud was stalled due to the absence of the second defendant who were indisposed.
Although emefiele was present in court today the second defendant, a female CBN employee, sa’adatu yaro, was not in court.
Following an application for adjournment, the presiding judge, justice Hamza Muazu adjourned the matter to august 23, 2023.
Emefiele will be arraigned alongside Yaro and her company, april1616 investment limited on 20 charges of procurement fraud, conspiracy and conferring corrupt advantages on his associates.
