The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has vowed to appeal Thursday’s acquittal of a former Governor of Adamawa, Bala Ngilari, by the Court of Appeal.
The Court set aside the ruling of the state High Court which had earlier sentenced Ngilari to five years imprisonment.
In a statement on Friday, spokesman of the commission, Wilson Uwujaren, described the ruling as “a travesty of justice’’.
He said, “Pundits consider the decision of the Appellate Court, which was read by Justice Folashade Omoleye, as shocking, and the last thing needed by the current war against corruption being spearheaded President Muhammadu Buhari.
“It is curious that Justice Omoleye, while delivering the ruling, alluded to the fact that Ngilari was not ‘a procurement entity’ and as such, a former governor could not be charged ‘as if he was an ordinary procurement officer’.
“The commission has, therefore, resolved to appeal the ruling because the EFCC believes that the judgment is a travesty of justice”.
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