The office of the Attorney-General of the federation has secured the approval of a High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Jabi, Abuja to arraign the Chief Registrar of the Supreme Court, Ahmed Saleh, and two other officials for diversion of N2.2bn belonging to the court.

Ahmed Saleh, Muhammed Abdulrahman Sharif and Rilwanu Lawal are being investigated for allegedly receiving gratifications totalling N74.4m from private contractors providing services to the Supreme Court between 2009 and 2016.

Neither the accused persons nor their lawyers was present in court.

It was learnt that the defendants had yet to be served with the charges as of Wednesday morning.

This prompted the prosecuting counsel, Mrs Hajara Yusuf to ask for an adjournment to enable the prosecution to produce them in court.

She said, “We were made to understand that the matter was assigned to this court just yesterday morning.

“We will be asking for an adjournment to enable us to produce the defendants in court.”
The judge in granting Yusuf’s request then fixed November 17 for the arraignment of the accused.Jud

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