The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal filed by immediate past Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi seeking to stop his probe over an alleged N96 billion fraud. In a lead judgment prepared by Justice Emmanuel Augie but read by Justice Adamu Jairo today May 27, the apex court dismissed the appeal of Ameachi on grounds that the issue of not being given a fair hearing does not arise as no one is on trial. Amaechi who was governor …
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The Police have instituted a lawsuit to stop the judicial panels of inquiry setup by different Governors in various states in the country to probe allegations of rights abuses and other acts of impunity against police officials, particularly operatives of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS). The lawsuit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/1492/2020 and filed for the NPF by its lawyer O. M. Atoyebi (SAN), has 104 defendants which include the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF), National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), the attorneys-general of the states …