14th July, 2023
A FCT High Court, Abuja, has dismissed the case against the former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Justice Yusuf Halilu, who presided the case, delivered the judgement today.
He described the EFCC’s charges of fraud and abuse of office against Okorocha as an abuse of judicial process.
The anti-graft agency, he noted, had filed a similar charge against the defendant at the Federal high court.
Okorocha was arrested in May, 2022 when EFCC operatives broke into his Maitama Abuja residence. He is accused of refusing to “honour invitations after jumping the administrative bail earlier granted him by the Commission.”
But Okorocha, who was running for President under the platform of the All Progressives Congress at the time, accused the agency of holding him hostage in his own home.
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