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An Abuja High Court sitting in Apo, Abuja, yesterday, dismissed the 17-count charge of criminal breach of trust in the procurement of a N40 billion loan for the House of Representatives preferred against the erstwhile Speaker, Dimeji Bankole and his deputy, Usman Bayero Nafada, by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.

“Chasing shadows”

Upholding the no case submission of the accused persons, the court presided over by Justice Suleiman Belgore, affirmed that the EFCC was “chasing shadows” in the prosecution as it maintained that the Clerk of the House and other bureaucrats, being the accounting officers, should have been the ones docked by the EFCC.

Nafada and Bankole

The court, nevertheless, affirmed that it was morally wrong, morally indefensible and morally insensitive for the members to have increased their “running costs” from N27million per quarter, per member, to N42million. That, however, did not amount to a criminal offence but a moral wrong, Justice Belgore ruled yesterday,  Click Here to Read Full Story,

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