The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, limited the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) from arraigning the previous Comptroller-General, Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Alhaji Abdullahi Dikko.
Judge Nnamdi Dimgba conveyed the judgment on the suit organized by Dikko.
The judge expressed that the non-indictment understanding went into between the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), Abubakar Malami, and the offended party was official on EFCC.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reviews that the understanding among Dikko and the AGF depended on the arrival of N1.5 billion continues of supposed violations the ex-NCS manager submitted while in office to the coffers of Federal Government.
Equity Dimgba held that by goodness of the arrangements of Section 174 of the Constitution, the AGF, being the central law official of the league, was saturated with wide powers and carefulness on indictment matters.
The judge said that the case by the counter unite office that it followed up on a mysterious request to start its examinations “can’t abrogate the optional forces gave on the Attorney-General of the Federation by goodness of Section 174 of the Constitution.”
Equity Dimgba likewise noticed that since Malami didn’t restrict the suit, the AGF had bought in to Dikko’s case.
Considering the clashing places of the AGF and the EFCC on the Dikko’s case, the judge advised government organizations joined as litigants in the suit on the need to talk with one voice.
“There is a need for government to speak with one voice and not in different tunes that appear to be discordant,” he remarked.
Daybreak.ng reports that while Dikko was the complainant, AGF, the State Services Department (DSS), the EFCC and its chairman were the defendants in the suit.
