Lagos - The bid by former minister for Commerce
and Industry, Mahmud Tukur, and four other
defendants standing trial in a N1.5billion subsidy
scam, to have charges against them quashed has
failed.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) is opposing the bids.
The other defendants are Ochonogor Alex,
Abdullahi Alao and their companies- Eterna Plc and
Ax Energy.
They are standing trial before Justice Lateef Lawal
Akapo of a Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja.
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At the resumed hearing of the matter on
Wednesday, EFCC counsel, Rotimi Jacobs, SAN,
prayed the court not to entertain the submissions
of the defence team led by Olaniran Obehe to
quash the charges against the accused persons.
Tukur's counsel, Obehe, alongside Ebun Adegoruwa
and Aderemi Oguntoye: counsels to Ochonogor and
Alao respectively, prayed the court to quash the
charges against their clients. Adegoruwa had argued
that the charges be quashed or alternatively strike
out Ochonogor’s name from the charge, while Alao's
counsel described the charge as “incurably
cancerous.”
After listening to the arguments and submissions of
counsel, Justice Akapo has adjourned the matter to
November 16 for ruling.
- CAJ News
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