The learned Dr. Dominic Ayine on the 12th day of February, 2025 offered a plethora of reasons for the withdrawal of charges and filling of nolle prosequi in cases began by his predecessor Attorneys-General.

In his 10-paged statement read to the media, he disclosed persons he consulted with before the stoppage of the prosecutions predating his tenure as A-G which began just January, 2025. He said "Before taking any of the decisions I am about to explain, I consulted widely:

1. I had several briefings from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on each of the cases. Where I disagreed with her, I made my disagreement known to her with reasons.

2. I spoke to the defense lawyers in each case and, again, where there were disagreements, as for instance in the banking clean-up cases which I shall deal with shortly, I made my views known to the lawyers.

3. I spoke to some of the investigators involved in the cases at hand to get a sense of what they found during their investigations of the cases."

Below is the full statement of the learned A-G, Dr. Dominic Akurintinga Ayine