The Bauchi State Commissioner for Justice and Attorney General, Hassan El-Yakub, has revealed that the state government spent an average of N500 million annually to prosecute criminal cases before he came on board. Speaking at the state ministerial briefing on Friday, the attorney general mentioned that 557 cases comprising armed robbery, culpable homicide, rape, kidnapping and other minor offences were recorded between January 2023 and June 2024. Speaking on the cost implications of the prosecutions before he assumed office, El-Yakub revealed: “All high-profile cases were given out to externa…