The presidency has successfully trained 80 prosecutors, broken into 20 teams to try corruption cases in the country.
Special adviser on media and publicity, to the AGF, Mr Salihu Isah, has also confirmed that the forgery case against Bukola Saraki, Ike Ekweremadu and others was one of the high-profile criminal cases to be handled by the special team.
“The prosecutors, 80 in all, are constituted into 20 teams. After they were trained, cases have been assigned to the first six and one of the cases is the Saraki’s case that you mentioned.”
He said the team would also tackle other issues including corruption and terrorism.
“The teams will take up cases investigated by the various law enforcement agencies, ICPC, EFCC, DSS and even some being handled by the ministry,” Punch reported him as saying.
The team was trained by the presidential advisory committee against corruption headed by legal luminary, Professor Itse-Sagay for one month, which ended in June.
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