Femi Falana SAN, the head of Zinox Technologies, Leo Stan Ekeh, and other members of the Cabinet’s Office of the Attorney General of the Federation (AGF), has requested that the fiat be prosecuted.
The AGF has withdrawn such fiat after the first in a case that has lasted for 13 years and involved a deal between an Enugu State indigene, Benjamin Joseph, an Enugu state resident, and Technology Distributions Limited regarding the supply of computers to the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS).
It was claimed that Zinox and its promoter, Ekeh, had no bearing in the project, in which Technology Distributions fully extended credit to COCL.
Lateef Fagbemi, SAN, the AGF’s Director of Public Prosecutions, M. B. Abubakar, on behalf of the AGF and the Minister of Justice, signed a letter dated May 2, 2025, which was addressed to the Principal Partner, Falana and Falana Chambers. in the name of justice, v. Leo Stan and 12 others.
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He made the point that he should not have received the fiat in the first place.
In response to the letter’s headline, “Withdrawal of Authorisation Under Section 174 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 as amended,” it read, “I am directed to write in reference to the above caption and inform you that the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, in the exercise of the power that was previously granted to you by section 174 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999, as amended and Section 106 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015, has withdrawn the fi
In order to protect justice, you are therefore requested to withdraw Charge No. FCT/HC/CR/985/2024 between FRN v. Leo Stan Ekeh and 12 others.
The Director, Public Prosecutions of the Federation, in a letter dated May 6, 2025, conveyed the defendants’ withdrawal to the chamber of Matthew Burkka &, Co., the defendants’ chief counsel.
The Attorney General of the Federation has withdrawn the fiat donated to Messrs. Femi Falana SAN on December 20, 2023 from a letter dated May 2, 2025. The letter reads in part.
A fraud case brought against Ekeh, his wife, Chioma Ekeh, and 11 others was dismissed by the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, in the Bwara Division in March.
The lawsuit in Suit No. CR/985/2024 was found to be a gross abuse of court procedure and liable for dismissal by Justice Akpan Okon Ebong. I subsequently cite its dismissal.
Falana, the attorney and justice minister, filed the lawsuit against Zinox Technologies’ chairman and 12 others in November 2024.
Chris Ozims, Oyebode Folashade, Charles Adigwe, Obilo Onuoha, Agartha Ukoha, Anya Anya, Femi Dosumu, Nnenna Kalu, Admas Digital Technologies Limited, Technology Distributions Limited, and Zinox Technologies Limited are the other defendants in the case.
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