By
Wilson Uwujaren
Justice J. Liman of the Federal High
Court sitting in Benin City, Edo state, has again moved judgment in the N25
billion fraud trial of Michael Igbinedion and Charles Eboigbodin to Monday
April 20, 2015, due to the extended Easter break of judges.
The new date was communicated to
parties concerned as the court failed to sit on Friday, April 17, 2015. The
development is coming barely a month after Justice Liman promised there would
to be no further delay in delivering the ruling which has suffered several
adjournments since January 30, 2015, when the case was first fixed for
judgment.
It would be recalled that on March
10, 2015, counsel had to re-adopt their earlier adopted written addresses in
line with the constitutional provision that, “after 90 days of adopting written
addresses, if judgment is not delivered, the judge can summon the parties to
re-adopt”.
Igbinedion, Eboigbodin and their
companies: Gava Corporation Limited; Romrig Nigeria Limited; PML Securities
Company Limited and PML Nigeria Limited, were arraigned by the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission EFCC on charges bordering on money laundering,
misappropriation of funds, conspiracy and abuse of office. Wilson
No comments:
Post a Comment