Emefiele asks court to dismiss $6.23m procurement fraud charges

A former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele, has asked the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory to quash the $6.23 million procurement fraud charges brought against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. He argued on Monday that his continued trial over the alleged economic crime was in bad faith, claiming that none of the witnesses called by the EFCC or the evidence presented linked him to the charges. His call for the dismissal of the charges followed a no case submission argued on his behalf by his lead counsel, Mathew Burkaa, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN. At Tuesday's proceedings, Burkaa, while laying the foundation for the n...