The Rivers State Government has withdrawn the money laundering and criminal charges against a former lawmaker, Chinyere Igwe.
Igwe was on February 24, eve of the presidential election, arrested and arraigned before a court, for having in his possession, the sum of $499,000,000 dollars.He was granted bail after some weeks.
When the matter resumed in court for proper trial on Wednesday morning, (June 21), Rivers State Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice, Professor Zacchaeus Adangor, announced the withdrawal of the suit.
Adangor did not give any reason for the state government’s decision to withdraw the case against Igwe.
The trial judge, Justice Stephen Daylop-Pam, in his ruling, after the position of the state government was not opposed by the defence counsel, discharged the defendant.
The judge also ordered the Police to return Igwe’s international passport and other exhibits seized from him.
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