Emefiele: FG files fresh charges, withdraw firearms case

The Public Prosecutor to the Federal Government of Nigeria, Mohammed Bakodo Abubakar on Tuesday applied to the Federal High Court sitting in Ikoyi, Lagos to withdraw charges of illegal possession of firearms against the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele.

The development followed the outcome of further investigations into activities of the embattled CBN governor.

He said the Federal Ministry of Justice has carried out investigations further on the illegal possession of firearms and saw the need to file fresh 20-count charge against Emefiele, hence, his oral application to withdraw the initial charge.

Speaking with journalists after Tuesday’s Court proeedings in Lagos, the Prosecutor revealed that the fresh charges have been filed at the Federal High Court, Abuja.

CAPITAL POST recalled that Godwin Emefiele was on July 25, arraigned on a two-count charge bordering on “illegal possession of firearms” at a Federal high court in Ikoyi, Lagos.

The Court ordered his detention at the Correctional Centre against being in the DSS facility, but the situation degenerated to a fisticuff between operatives of the two sister agencies of government in Lagos.