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Court Strikes Out Assets Declaration Charges Against Ekweremadu

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SAN FRANCISCO, February 24, (THEWILL) – The Federal High Court in Abuja has struck out charges of non-declaration of assets instituted against former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, by the defunct Special Presidential Investigation Panel for the Recovery of Public Property.

The dissolved panel then led by Mr. Okoi Obono-Obla had in 2018 instituted the case marked FHC/ABJ/CR/62/2018 against Ekweremadu, alleging that, “without reasonable excuse”, the serving senator refused and neglected to declare his assets upon being served the panel’s “notice to declare”.

The AGF office took over the case and other suits being handled by the SPIP upon a presidential directive dissolving the panel in 2019.

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However, Justice Binta Nyako, on Monday, struck out the case against Ekweremadu after the prosecuting counsel from the AGF office, Mr Pius Akutah, said the former lawyer handling the case for the panel had disappeared with the case file.

Akutah pleaded with the judge to order the former counsel to release the file to the AGF office but the request was declined by the judge and Ekweremadu’s lawyer, Chief Adegboyega Awomolo (SAN), urged the judge to strike out the case which he did.

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