The Senior Avocado of Nigeria is standing trial before a Lagos High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square.
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The Magistrate, Mohammed Ibrahim, however, gave Suleiman an option of N30,000 fine.
The judge was recently discharged for alleged bribery, for trial.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has re-arraigned Mohammed Yunusa, a dismissed judge of the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court, and Esther Agbo, a member of staff of the law chambers of Rickey Tarfa (SAN), at an Ikeja Special Offences Court.
A staff of the chambers of Rickey Tarfa & Co. declined taking a polygraph (lie detector) test in an investigation into an allegation of offering gratification to a judge, a detective claimed on Thursday.
The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the revelation was made on Tuesday during the testimony of Moses Awolusi, an EFCC investigator, during Yunusa’s trial at an Ikeja Special Offences Court in Lagos.
Two prosecution witnesses of EFCC on Monday testified at before Ikeja Special Offences Court in the ongoing trial of a dismissed judge of the Federal High Court, Lagos, Justice Mohammed Yunusa.
Tarfa had pleaded not guilty to a 26-count charge bordering on offering monetary gratification to two judges of the Federal High Court – Justices Hyeladzira Nganjiwa and Mohammed Yunusa.
The court took the decision following a request by the defence for an adjournment to reply an affidavit by the prosecution.
Yunusa was charged with a four-count charge of attempted perversion of the course of justice and corruption by a public official, while Agbo was charged with offering gratification to a public official.