PEOPLES GAZETTE
Justice Abubakar Kutigi of the FCT High Court discharged Mohammed Bello Adoke, the former attorney general of the federation, and six others on Thursday.
They were charged with infractions relating to the controversial Oil Prospecting Licence (OPL) 245, otherwise known as the Malabu Oil scam.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission dragged Adoke and other defendants before the court on an amended 40-count charge bordering on disobeying the direction of the law, offering and receiving gratification, conspiracy, and forgery, among other things.
Mr Adoke, who served as Nigeria’s justice minister under then-President Goodluck Jonathan, was prosecuted by EFCC in the suit, marked FCT/HC/CR/151/2020.
