hehe.......Under-fire ex-boss of NNPC, Andrew Yakubu has withdrawn a law suit slammed on EFCC and the AGF, Abubakar Malami.
A former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum
Corporation, Mr. Andrew Yakubu, on Tuesday terminated his fundamental
human rights enforcement suit, in which he sought N1 billion as
compensation for his alleged unlawful detention by the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
Yakubu had filed the suit before Justice Ahmed Mohammed of the
Federal High Court in Abuja following his arrest on February 8, 2017 and
his continued detention by the EFCC with respect to the sums of
$9,772,800 and £74,000 recovered from his house in Kaduna on February 3.
But his lawyer, Mr. Adeola Adedipe, informed the judge at the
resumed hearing of the case on Tuesday that he had filed a notice of
discontinuance of the suit on behalf of his client.
The lawyer cited the recent arraignment of the former NNPC boss and
the bail subsequently granted him (Yakubu) by the court as the grounds
for filing the discontinuance notice.
Justice Mohammed, before whom Yakubu was also arraigned on March
16, struck out the suit after Adedipe moved his client’s motion on
Tuesday.
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