Justice Mohammed Liman of a Federal High Court in Lagos has discharged and acquitted a former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, of an alleged N338.8 million money laundering charge slammed on him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). .
Ikuforiji was cleared of the alleged offence alongside his former Personal Assistant, Oyebode Atoyebi.
Delivering judgement in the matter today, Justice Liman held that the anti-graft agency failed to prove its case against the defendants beyond reasonable doubt.
The defendants were first arraigned on March 1, 2012, before Justice Okechukwu Okeke on a 20-count charge bordering on misappropriation and money laundering.
