The Federal High Court in Abuja has threatened to return the EFCC’s case file in the charge against Ali Bello, the Chief of Staff (CoS) to the Kogi government, to the Chief Judge, Justice John Tsoho, for reassignment.
Justice James Omotosho made the threat Monday following a complaint by Bello’s counsel, Abubakar Aliyu, SAN, accusing the EFCC of publishing untrue accounts of what transpired in court on the last adjourned date on its website against his client.
The anti-graft agency filed the charges in 2022, accusing Bello and Dauda Sulaiman of fraud and alleged diversion of funds from the Kogi State Government coffers.
While Bello is the 1st defendant, Sulaiman is the 2nd defendant in the 10-count charge marked: FHC/ABJ/CR/550/2022.
Aliyu had told the court that he had a complaint to make on his client’s behalf.
He said: “The prosecutor (the EFCC) is subjecting my client (Bello) to mob justice…
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