Adoke: EFCC wasting taxpayers’ money on my trial - Ex-AGF

- Mohammed Bello Adoke, a former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), has called on the EFCC to withdraw its case against him

- Adoke said that the EFCC's case against him lacks evidence

- The former AGF also said that the anti-graft agency is wasting taxpayers' money on his trial

A former Attorney General of the Federation (AGF) and minister of justice, Mohammed Bello Adoke, has said that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is wasting taxpayers’ money over his trial.

Adoke, who dismissed the allegation that he fled the country in a bid to avoid trial over the OPL 245/Malabu issue, was reacting to EFCC's denial that its case against him lacked evidence, The Cable reports.

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The former AGF called on the EFCC to withdraw its case against him at the Federal High Court in Abuja following the revelations emerging from the ongoing trial of Shell and ENI over the OPL 245 affair in Italy.

He said: "Their case has crumbled and they know it but they have become so reckless that they are not ready to stop wasting tax payers money on frivolous court cases.

"I will come home to defend myself after attending to my health. There are no questions about that.”

Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that the residence of the immediate past governor of Zamfara state, Abdulaziz Yari, in Talata Mafara, about 100km away from the state capital, Gusau, was on Sunday, August 4, raided by operatives of the EFCC.

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Eye witnesses said the operatives numbering more than 20, came in seven vehicles, including a bus for the operation that lasted for five hours.

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