Timipre Sylva A Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday dismissed the N19.2bn fraud charges instituted against a former governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva. This came nine days after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission dropped six counts of N2.45bn against him. Justice Ahmed Mohammed, by Wednesday ruling on a notice of preliminary objection filed by Sylva, dismissed the N19.2bn charges as an abuse of court process. This brought to an end all pending EFCC cases against the former governor. The judge held on Wednesday that the N19.2bn charge instituted against Sylva by the EFCC was an abuse of court process since it was based on the same set of transactions involved in the N2.45bn charge that was recently dropped. Justice Evoh Chukwu of the same Federal High Court in Abuja had on June 1, 2015, struck out the six counts of N2.45bn charges, after the EFCC filed and moved an application withdrawing them. But Justice Mohammed also held on Wednesday that the EF...
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