MOHAMMED BABA IDRIS, JSC (DELIVERING THE LEADING JUDGMENT): This is an appeal against the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Yola Judicial Division, delivered on the 20th day of July, 2017, in Appeal No. CA/YL/80C/2017 coram: Oyebisi Folayemi Omoleye, JCA, James Shehu Abiriyi, JCA, and Saidu Tanko Husaini, JCA, wherein the Court below allowed the 1st Respondent's appeal and set aside the judgment of the trial High Court of Adamawa State, which convicted the 1st Respondent for alleged violations of the Public Procurement Law of Adamawa State, 2013.
The 1st Respondent was charged alongside the 2nd and 3rd Respondents on an amended information dated the 25th day of January, 2017, as follows:
STATEMENT OF OFFENCE ON COUNT 1
Criminal conspiracy contrary to Section (1)(b) of the Penal Code and punishable under Section 97(2) of the same Code.
PARTICULARS OF THE OFFENCE
That you, Bala James Ngilari, Ibrahim Andrew Welye, and Sandra Jonathan Lamurde, sometime in January 2015 at Yola, Adamawa State, w…