Lagos — About 50 lawyers represented by Mr. Yahaya Mohammed yesterday filed a suit before an Abuja Federal High Court seeking an order of mandamus compelling the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to probe former President Olusegun Obasanjo for the alleged role he played in the $180 million Halliburton bribery scandal.
Mohammed, in a statement attached to the motion ex-parte said an interim report submitted by the panel set up by late President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua to investigate the scandal in 2008, mentioned names of prominent Nigerian officials alongside former President Obasanjo suspected to have been deeply involved in the scandal.
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