On Tuesday, the Federal Government submitted a request to drop the charges of illegal firearm possession against Godwin Emefiele, the suspended governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria.
Mohammed Bakodo Abubakar, the Director of Public Prosecutions at the Federal Ministry of Justice, presented an oral application to the federal high court in Ikoyi, explaining that this decision was based on further investigations.
Abubakar also revealed that a new set of charges, consisting of 20 counts, has been filed against Emefiele at the Federal High Court in Abuja.
He shared this information with journalists after the day’s proceedings.
Notably, on July 25, Emefiele had been arraigned on a two-count charge related to the “illegal possession of firearms” at a federal high court in Ikoyi, Lagos.
