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OBANDE FESTUS OGBUINYA, J.S.C. (Delivering the Lead Judgment): This appeal probes into the rightness of the decision of the Court of Appeal, Abuja, Division (hereunder addressed as "the lower Court"), coram judice: A. D. Yahaya, T. Akomolafe-Wilson and P. O. Ige, JJCA, in Appeal No. CA/A/791C/2017, delivered on the 18th April, 2019. In its judgment, the lower Court set aside the decision of the Special Court Martial, SCM (the trial Court), in Charge No. NA/COAS/GI/39, delivered on the 20th July, 2017 and confirmed on the 20th October, 2017, wherein AVM J.M. Gabum, who presided over the GCM, sentenced the respondent to reduction in rank and monetary restitution to the appellant.
A resume of the essential facts of the case, which transformed into this appeal, are disobedient to verbosity and complexity. The respondent was a Major General in the appellant and the Chief of Transformation and Innovation at the appellant's headquarters, Abuja. By a letter dated the 27th September, 2012, the…