The Federal Government has withdrawn the charge of illegal possession of firearms and filed fresh charges with 20 counts against the embattled governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele.
Speaking to journalists on Tuesday, August 15, the Director of Public Prosecutions at the Federal Ministry of Justice Mohammed Bakodo Abubakar who approached the federal high court in Ikoyi with an oral application said the withdrawal followed the result of further investigations.
He further disclosed that the fresh charges with 20 counts had been filed against Emefiele at the Federal High Court, Abuja.
Emefiele was earlier arraigned before a federal high court in Ikoyi, Lagos on July, 25 bordering a two count charges on the “illegal possession of firearms”