By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
The Supreme Court, yesterday, gave the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, the nod to re-open the money laundering charge it preferred against former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji.
The apex court, in a unanimous verdict by a five-man panel of Justices, voided the judgement of the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court that terminated further hearing on the charge against Ikuforiji who was accused of complicity in a N388million fraud.
Trial Justice Ibrahim Buba had in a ruling in September 2014, held that the EFCC failed to establish a prima facie case against Ikuforiji and his co-defendant, Oyebode Atoyebi, even as he dismissed 56-count charge against them.
Dissatisfied with the high court’s verdict, EFCC took the matter before the Court of Appeal in Lagos, which in November 2016, up-turned…
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