Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumobia, who was charged with unlawful enrichment and money laundering, insisted on Thursday that she had already been tried and the charges against her struck out.
She contended that the Federal High Court in Lagos lacked jurisdiction to entertain the charges against her, which the Lagos State High Court in Ikeja had on April 16 struck out.
Her lawyer, Chief Robert Clarke (SAN), said she had been prosecuted for about two and a half years before Ikeja High Court, during which the prosecution called 18 witnesses.
The SAN argued that the substance of the charges had already been decided before Justice Hakeem Oshodi struck them out based on the Court of Appeal decision in Nganjiwa’s case that a serving judge could not be prosecuted unless first investigated and sanctioned by the National Judicial Council. Read more