The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday failed to re-arraign three officials of the National Assembly over an alleged N337 million fraud following a preliminary objection by one of the defendants.
The defendants are Aishatu Bappa El-Nafaty, Director of Public Affairs in the Directorate of Special Duties and Parliamentary Security; Mamud Alhaji Abubakar, former Permanent Secretary in the National Assembly; and Igba Ityoakura Joseph, Deputy Director of Procurement.
The trio were scheduled to be re-arraigned before Justice Muhammed Zubairu of the FCT High Court in Jikwoyi, Abuja.
The EFCC had filed an amended 23-count charge bordering on conspiracy, forgery, criminal breach of trust, official corruption and alleged diversion of N337,062,350 belonging to the National Assembly.
The re-arraignment could not proceed after Muhammed Ndayako, counsel to Abubakar, filed a preliminary objection challenging portions of the amended charge.
Ndayako urged the court to strike out counts three, four, five, six,
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