Nigeria’s Attorney General – Lateef Fagbemi has taken over the prosecution of 5 suspects accused of burning the Rivers State House of Assembly complex.
Fagbemi made this known on Tuesday at the Federal High Court in Abuja where the five defendants had been facing trial for their alleged complicity in the burning of Rivers State House of Assembly and killing of a Divisional Police Officer, DPO.
The AGF instructed the Nigeria Police Force to stop the prosecution of the charges and hand over the case file to his office for a review of the indictment of the defendants.
