Yinusa said this while giving evidence as a second defence witness in the trial of Rickey Tarfa, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), charged with giving gratification to a judicial officer.
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The counsel to the prosecution told a Federal High Court in Lagos on Tuesday that Udoh is listed as a witness for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.
Acting Chairman of the commission, Ibrahim Magu, raised the concern at the 7th Triennial National Delegates Conference of the National Council of Muslim Youth Organisations in Ibadan.
While reacting to a statement made by former the former governor at the zone B Peoples Democratic Party rally in Paiko that all the decampees from the party to the All Progressives Congress are looters, Bello said the ex-governor should be ready to answer some questions from anti-corruption agencies.
The defendant allegedly forged the Memorandum of Loss of Lagos State Certificate of Occupancy in respect of a property located in Lagos, so it could be acted upon as genuine.
The commission announced its intention of discontinuance with the suit before Justice Laniran Akintola of an Oyo State High Court in Ibadan.
The Judge, who accused the EFCC of frustrating proceedings in the trial and attempting to take over control of the court, withdrew from the case and returned its file to the Chief Judge of the Court, Justice Abdul Adamu Kafarati, for re-assignment to another court.
Azibaola is asking the court to enforce his fundamental human rights by setting him free and that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had no power to arrest him based on “a civil transaction”.
The suspects, said to be Ukrainians, were apprehended and handed over to the commission by the Nigerian Navy Forward Operation Base in Bonny, Rivers.
The judge, however, ruled that trial would continue on March 9 in Lagos.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the EFCC closed its case during Wednesday’s proceedings following the conclusion of the testimony of a fourth prosecution witness.
Metuh was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, on a two-count charge bordering on alleged destruction of evidence.
The claimant instituted the action against the anti-graft agency in 2014, challenging his unlawful dismissal.
Haastrup struck out the suit on January 30, 2017 for lack of diligent prosecution.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Tarfa had informed the court that he had no case to answer when he was to open his defence during Monday’s lengthy proceedings which lasted from 11.47am till 5.25pm.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the other defendants are a former Oyo State Commissioner for Local Government and Chieftaincy Matters, Senator Hosea Agboola, and an Ibadan-based businessman, Femi Babalola.
The Court on Friday (March 2, 2018) said that the CCT Chairman would have a likelihood of bias against Owolabi because of the petition and the interrogation by the EFCC.
This followed an agreement by the leadership of the Senate and the House of Representatives to move the NFIU to the Central Bank of Nigeria.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is prosecuting Usman alongside Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Aviation and the Chairman of the 2015 Goodluck Jonathan Presidential Campaign Organisation.
The Apex Court held that the bails granted Dasuki in respect of criminal charges brought against him by the EFCC have been obeyed having been implemented by the Controller of Prison, Kuje on December 29, 2015.
A bank official and witness told the court how N250 million was transferred into an ex-minister’s account from a company.