Alleged N1.4b fraud: EFCC boss Bawa to testify in court
The trial of an oil marketer, Abubakar Ali Peters, and his company, Nadabo Energy Limited, for an alleged N1.4 billion fraud was stalled yesterday at an Ikeja High Court.
The counsel representing the defence refused to cross-examine the Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Abdulrasheed Bawa.
During the resumed proceedings, counsel to the defendant, Abbas Oyeyemi, told the trial judge, Justice Christopher Balogun, that the defence could not continue with the cross-examination of the star witness and Bawa, who is testifying as the prosecution’s fifth witness.
It was not clear why the lead defence counsel, Mr. E. O. Isiramen, was not in court yesterday.
Oyeyemi told the court that he held the brief of J. B. Daudu (SAN) and not that of Isiramen.
He explained that his inability to continue with the cross-examination of the EFCC star witness was because the defence did not have the Certified True Copy (CTC) of the court’s proceedings.
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