The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday insisted that the N650 million alleged fraud case it instituted against a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mrs Jumoke Akinjide, and two others must be heard at the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court.
The anti-graft agency said motions filed by Akinjide’s co-accused, Senator Ayo Adeseun and Mrs Olanrewaju Otiti, seeking the transfer of the case to the Ibadan Division of the Federal High Court was unmeritorious and should be dismissed.
Arguing the counter affidavits filed by the commission against the two motions, counsel to the EFCC, Nnaemeka Omewa, maintained that the defendants’ rights of being charged in a court within 40km radius of where the alleged offence was committed has been upheld with the filing of a charge against them at a Federal High Court in Ibadan.
He added that all the defendants were also duly arraigned at a Federal High Court in Ibadan before Akinjide’s petition…
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