Bauchi govt contractor loses bid to stop probe by EFCC

A contractor to Bauchi State government, Alhaji Hamza Koshe who is also the proprietor of Pentech Engineering Nig Ltd has lost his bid to use court to stop the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC or any other anti- corruption agency from investigating him and his company

The EFCC had earlier invited Koshe for questioning but rather than honouring the invitation, he sued the Commission .

Koshe had approached Bauchi State High Court on September 23, 2024 seeking a restraining order to halt the EFCC from investigating and prosecuting him and his company.

He had in a 31- paragraph affidavit asked the court to grant him “an order of perpetual injunction restraining the EFCC and ICPC, their agents, privies, cohorts or any other persons, agency, Commission or officials by whatever name / designation called driving authority from EFCC or ICPC or working in collaboration with them from inviting or in any other manner subjecting him and his company to their operations , activities or functions in so far as it relates to the issues arising from questions dealt with or covered by the contract financing agreement between Bauchi State Ministry of Finance ( Treasury Division) and Pentech Engineering Nig Ltd)”

While delivering judgment in Bauchi State on July 30, 2025, Justice Aliyu Baba Usman of Bauchi State High Court sitting in Bauchi said, ” This honourable court and indeed courts of law lack requisite powers to restrain by perpetual order or any other order the law enforcement , in this case EFCC and ICPC from performing its legitimate function of investigation and prosecution of money laundering, corruption, economic and financial crimes or any other related offences”.

The judge, by his ruling, therefore gave the EFCC the go ahead to continue its investigation of the suspect.