At the resumed trial, Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), the lead prosecuting counsel, told the Federal High Court, Abuja that the fourth prosecution witness, Abubakar Umar, said he was coerced by Suswam’s team.
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EFCC had on Oct. 31, 2016, preferred 34 count charges bordering on N3.2 billion alleged fraud against Kalu and his former Commissioner for Finance, Ude Udeogo.
This followed a ruling on Monday where the Court of Appeal faulted the grounds on which the CCT dismissed the charges against Saraki.
The former governor said this during cross examination by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s prosecuting counsel, Rotimi Jacobs (SAN).
The tribunal, headed by Justice Danladi Umar, has last week said based on the unreliability of the witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in the case, it was discharging and acquitting Saraki of the allegations of false declaration of assets while in office as the Governor of Kwara State
The Court of Conduct Tribunal last week cleared the Senate President of 13-count charge of corruption levelled against him
Saraki told the Tribunal that from the 18-count charges and the totality of evidence adduced by the government witnesses, he had not been linked in any way with the allegations against him
It is not the first time the DSS will defy the court’s order to produce Dasuki
This is the fourth time the government will refuse to produce him in court for trial
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had on October 31, 2016 preferred a 34-count charge bordering on N3.2 billion fraud against Kalu and his former Commissioner for Finance, Ude Udeogo, as well as a company, Slok Nigeria Limited.
The accused had pleaded not guilty to the charges
Dasuki, who has been illegally detained after being granted multiple bails by courts, said the Federal Government in the quest to nail him has engaged in gross abuse of court and legal process by instituting various criminal charges against him on just one issue of the office of the National Security Adviser
Saraki is standing trial on an amended 18-count charge bordering on false assets declaration at the CCT in Abuja
At the last sitting, the EFCC through its PW15, Mohammed Goji, told the court how a search conducted on the house of the former CDS led to the recovery of the money
The former military chief is facing trial for money laundering
Adefowope, who boasts of 25 years’ experience as a stockbroker, said this while being cross-examined by Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), the lead prosecutor for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
When the matter was called up, prosecuting counsel, O.A. Atolagbe, requested that the matter be stood down since the witness as well as the lead prosecuting counsel, Rotimi Jacobs, were on their way
Dasuki, former NSA to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, was arraigned on a 19-count charge
Justice Baba Yusuf reaffirmed the bail on Dasuki on the ground that he was entitled to it
Nwachukwu maintained that the disputed foreign account belonged to the operators of a credit card used by Saraki for a transaction
Ugo-Ngali was rushed to a private hospital in the metropolis on January 13 after she slumped in the dock when her sentence was about to be read to her by Justice Lateefat Okunnu