A former Head of Service of the Federation, Stephen Oronsaye, has been discharged and acquitted of the N2 billion fraud charge filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Recall that Oronsaye was in 2015 arraigned, alongside the Managing Director of Frederick Hamilton Global Services Limited, Osarenkhoe Afe.
They were accused of fraudulently using two companies, Frederick Hamilton Global Services Limited, and Xangee Technologies Limited, for dubious biometrics enrolment in the N2 billion fraud.
However, in a on Monday, Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja discharged and acquitted Oronsaye, holding that the prosecution failed to provide enough evidence to warrant a conviction.
According to the judge, no credible evidence was presented by the 21 witnesses called by the EFCC.
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