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The office of the Attorney-General of the federation has been granted a request to arraign Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, Mr. Ahmed Saleh, and two other officials of the apex for arraignment on nine counts, including diversion of N2.2bn belonging to the court.
The request was granted by an FCT high court in Jabi, Abuja on Wednesday.
The trio- Saleh and Muhammed Abdulrahman Sharif and Rilwanu Lawal, had been indicted last week. They were charged with the offences of receiving gratifications totalling N74.4m from private contractors providing services to the Supreme Court between 2009 and 2016.
The case was scheduled for the arraignment of the accused before Justice A.B Mohammed on Wednesday.
But neither the accused persons nor their lawyers was present in court. It was learnt that they hadn't been served with the charges as of Wednesday morning.
This prompted the prosecuting counsel, Mrs Hajara Yusuf to ask for an adjournment to enable the prosecution to produce them in court.
The judge in granting Yusuf’s request then fixed November 17 for the arraignment of the accused.
The Punch
The request was granted by an FCT high court in Jabi, Abuja on Wednesday.
The trio- Saleh and Muhammed Abdulrahman Sharif and Rilwanu Lawal, had been indicted last week. They were charged with the offences of receiving gratifications totalling N74.4m from private contractors providing services to the Supreme Court between 2009 and 2016.
The case was scheduled for the arraignment of the accused before Justice A.B Mohammed on Wednesday.
But neither the accused persons nor their lawyers was present in court. It was learnt that they hadn't been served with the charges as of Wednesday morning.
This prompted the prosecuting counsel, Mrs Hajara Yusuf to ask for an adjournment to enable the prosecution to produce them in court.
The judge in granting Yusuf’s request then fixed November 17 for the arraignment of the accused.
The Punch
