BY INNOCENT ANABA

LAGOS—A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, has struck out the charge against the Commissioner for Insurance and Chief Executive Officer of National Insurance Commission, NAICOM, Mr Fola Daniel.

Daniel was charged to court on a six-count charge of criminal misrepresentation of facts involving Alliance and General Insurance Limited and deliberate falsehood.
Trial judge, Justice Okon Abang, struck out the charge following an application to withdraw the case by the Director of Public Prosecution of the Federation, DPPF, on behalf of the Attorney General of the Federation, AGF, Mr Mohammed Adoke, SAN.

The application was based on the constitutional powers vested on the AGF to institute and to discontinue criminal cases.
A private prosecutor, Mr. Chijioke Ndubuisi had filed the motion together with a six-count charge against Daniel at the court and subsequently wrote for a fiat of the AGF.
The AGF declined the fiat, but instead elected to do the prosecution.

In the said charge accompanying Ndubuisi’s motion, it was alleged that Daniel deliberately made a number of misleading and malicious misrepresentations against an insurance company, Alliance and General Insurance Limited to a number of public officers and agencies with the intention of damaging the reputation of the said insurance company.

It was further alleged that Daniel committed the same offences against Fidelity Bond Group, by representing that the Group had infracted the Insurance Act of 1997.