EFCC will be empowered to investigate and prosecute as doing so will make a pigging of other legislations and render them barren and sterile. - Pg 28 of the Judgment Nwobike SAN V. FRN (Supra) My Lord continued at pages 28-29 of the Judgment of Nwobike’s case as follows:“…If the definition of ‘corrupt malpractice’ is not properly defined and demarcated, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission will assume supernatural strength as to render it all in all, thereby dwarfing other similar agencies vested with powers to investigate and prosecute Criminal offences, and bring the EFCC to assume the corresponding powers of the Chief Law Officer of the country. Such open ended powers if not defined, will escalate the status of the Agency to that of ruthless ungovernable monster. I am sure this is not the intention of the legislature necessitating the establishment of the EFCC and enacting the Act.” From the processes filed, the fulcrum of the case against the Applicant and to which charge No. SS/34C/2021 was filed before this court, is linked to the memorandum of understanding signed by the Applicant’s Company and the Sokoto State Government on the 4/5/2017 and in respect of which a petition was lodged before the EFCC in September, 2019. The said memorandum of understanding was annexed to the Applicant supporting affidavit and marked as Exhibit ‘A’, while the respondent also annexed it to their counter affidavit and marked it as Exhibit 1 respectively. Although the respondent did not annexed the petition to the counter affidavit as an exhibit, the Applicant annexed the said petition to his supporting affidavit and marked it as Exhibit ‘B’. Upon a careful perusal of the memorandum of understanding, one will apparently see that the monetary value of the assets of the Applicant’s Company as at 4/5/2017 Page 23 of 31

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