COURT STRIKES OUT FRAUD CASE AGAINST FORMER CHIEF OF AIR STAFF

The Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday struck out a N22.8 billion fraud charge against former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshall, Adesola Amosu, and two other Air Force Chiefs.

Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke set the military officers free while delivering rulings on their separate preliminary objections challenging the court’s jurisdiction to try them for the alleged crime.

The court held that Amosu and his co-defendants, Air Vice Marshal Jacob Bola Adigun and Air Commodore Gbadebo Owodunni Olugbenga, could not be tried by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission because they were serving military officers at the time the alleged crime was committed.

Air Marshal Amosu was appointed Chief of Air Staff (CAS) on January 16, 2014, and he was removed from the post on July 13, 2015, 12 months before his arraignment in court.