FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA V. ALHAJI ATTAHIRU DALHATU BAFARAWA & ORS

TUNDE OYEBANJI?AWOTOYE, J.C.A. (Delivering the Leading Judgment): This is the judgment in respect of the appeal of the appellant filed on 30/12/2014 against the decision of Hon. Justice Bello Abbas of High Court of Justice Sokoto in SS/M213/2014 delivered on 5/11/2014.

On 10/9/2014, the appellant who was the complainant/applicant at the lower Court filed a motion on notice praying as follows:-

"An order granting leave to the complainant/applicant to file further proof of evidence of witnesses in case no. SS/33C/2009 pending before this Honorable Court in terms of the bundle documents numbered as pages 1,170-1,206 herewith attached and marked as Exhibit A.

An order granting leave to the complainant/applicant to file further list of witnesses intended to be called by the complainant/applicant in case no. SS/33/2009 pending before this Honorable Court in terms of EXHIBIT "B" numbered as page 1,207 herewith attached.

An order of this Honorable Court deeming the further proof of evidence as we…