The eye of the Workplace of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice has been drawn to reactions trailing the discontinuation of the legal cost in opposition to the Managing Director and Chief Govt Officer MD/CEO of Fidelity Bank Plc.
The Lawyer Common’s determination to discontinue the legal cost in opposition to Dr. Nneka Onyeali-Ikpe, MD/CEO of Fidelity Bank Plc, is a testomony to the workplace’s dedication to upholding justice and equity. Because the chief regulation officer of the federation, the AGF has the constitutional energy to enter a nolle prosequi, discontinuing a prosecution the place it’s deemed needed to stop a miscarriage of justice.
This determination adopted a cautious evaluate of the case which didn’t join Dr. Onyeali-Ikpe to the cost as she was neither the account officer nor the Managing Director of the Fidelity Bank when the account used within the alleged scheme of fraud was opened.
The Lawyer Common’s determination is guided by the ideas of justice, equity, and the rule of regulation, and now we have each confidence that this determination is in the most effective curiosity of justice and the general public.
This determination does to not exculpate Fidelity Bank from the allegations contained within the cost which continues to be pending earlier than the court docket, however relatively an indication of the Lawyer Common’s responsibility to make sure that justice is served.
We urge the general public to permit the authorized course of to run its course and to chorus from hypothesis or leaping to conclusions.
The AGF will be certain that the most effective curiosity of Justice is served always and that each one these discovered wanting, at any time, face the total weight of regulation to function a deterrent to others.
Kamarudeen Ogundele,
S A to the President on Communication Publicity,
Workplace of the AGF& Minister of Justice
June 09, 2025
