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ABIODUN
V.
ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION

(2007) JELR 33857 (CA)

Court of Appeal 3 Jul 2007 Nigeria
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- The appellants, former civil servants of Kwara State, were arrested in 1996 for fraudulent conversion and prosecuted before the Miscellaneous Offences Tribunal, Ilorin, convicted on 27 May 1998, and sentenced to prison; they served their

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Suit Number:CA/IL/67/2006
Judges:TIJJANI ABDULLAHI Justice of The Court of Appeal of Nigeria HELEN MORONKEJI OGUNWUMIJU Justice of The Court of Appeal of Nigeria JUMMAI HANNATU SANKEY Justice of The Court of Appeal of Nigeria
Counsel:T.O.S. Gbadeyan Esq. with Tola Lawai Esq. (Miiss) and G. G. Adebiyi Esq. For Appellant For Respondent
Other Citations:ABIODUN V. ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE FEDERATION (2007) 15 NWLR (Pt.1057) 359 C.A.

JUMMAI HANNATU SANKEY, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): The Appellants, as Plaintiffs at the Federal High Court, sued the Respondent, Attorney General Federation and two others claiming certain reliefs, During the course of proceedings at the lower Court, the names of the 2nd and 3rd Defendants were struck out on the application of the Appellants/Plaintiffs' Counsel, Therefore, by the Amended Originating Summons at page 185 of the record, the Appellants claim thus from the sole Defendant:

1. A DECLARATION that the Judgment of the Miscellaneous Offences Tribunal in MOT/ ABJ/2/97 between the Federal Republic of Nigeria v. Alhaji Sulaiman Arowosaiye and 15 Others delivered on Wednesday, 27th day of May, 1998 is null and void, illegal, unconstitutional and of no effect whatsoever being an untraceable and lost Judgment as caused by the agencies of the Defendant, in violation of Section 33 (7) of the 1979 Constitution and under the Advanced Fee Fraud and other Related Offences Decr…

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