Corruption: AGF Office Says Previous Acquittal Can’t Stop Saraki From Fresh Trial - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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June 2, 2019
The Office of the Attorney-General of the Federationhas validated the move by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and anyother law enforcement agency to investigate the Senate President, BukolaSaraki, for alleged corrupt activities.
Responding to the fundamental right enforcement suitfiled by Saraki to stop his probe by the EFCC, the AGF office said theacquittal of the Senate President in previous criminal cases, including the oneinstituted against him at the Code of Conduct Tribunal, could not stop him frombeing charged with another offence.
Saraki had contended in the suit before JusticeTaiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja, that the interim seizure of hishouses by the EFCC, as part of an ongoing criminal investigation, was a violationof his rights.He maintained that the investigation was on thesame subject for which he had been previously tried and exonerated.