ANTHONY ABURIME V. COMMISSIONER OF POLICE

A. G. IRIKEFE, J.S.C. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): Before the Benin Judicial Division of the High Court of Bendel State, the applicant herein was prosecuted on information framed as hereunder:

"At the sessions holden at Benin on the 19th day of January, 1977 the Court is informed by the Director of Public Prosecutions of Bendel State of Nigeria on behalf of the State that ANTHONY ABURIME is charged with the following offence:

Statement of Offence

Official corruption, contrary to Section 82A(1)(a) of the Criminal Code, Cap 28 Volume 1 Laws of the former Western State of Nigeria 1959, applicable in the Bendel State of Nigeria.

Particulars of Offence

ANTHONY ABURIME on or about the 28th day of August, 1976, in the premises of the State C. I. D., Benin City, corruptly gave the sum of N200.00 in N10.00 Nigerian Currency notes as a gift for coke to one Joseph Akinyemi, a public official to wit; an Assistant Superintendent of Police attached to the Force C.I.D. Nigeria Police, Lagos, o…