The Chief Judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Ibrahim
Auta, has returned the corruption case file of a former governor of Benue
State, Gabriel Suswam, to Justice A.R. Mohammed and ordered him to continue
presiding over the case.
Suswam is being prosecuted by the EFCC, along with his
Commissioner of Finance, Okolobia Okpanachi, on a nine-count charge bordering
on conspiracy, abuse of office and diversion of state funds to the tune of N3.1
billion.
It would be recalled that Justice Mohammed had on June 6,
2016 handed off the case, and informed the court of his decision to return the
case file to the Chief Judge for reassignment. He had cited a May 27, 2016 report published on an online news medium – SaharaReporters, in which it
was alleged that Suswam “entered into a financial agreement” with him in order
to grant the former Benue State governor “a soft landing in the case.”
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