Akin Kuponiyi
A Federal High Court, sitting in Lagos, south west Nigeria Tuesday rejected the objection raised by the lawyers to the former governor of Abia State, Dr. Orji Uzor Kalu, and two others, to the witness summoned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), to give evidence in their trial.
Kalu, alongside his former aide, Udeh Udeogu, and his company, Slok Nigeria Limited, are standing trial before the court on an amended 34-count-charge of alleged N3.2 billion fraud.
At the hearing of the matter on Monday, the EFCC through its prosecutor, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs (sAN), called his witness, Mr. Onovie Oghenevo, banker to give evidence in their trial.
However, lawyers to Dr. Kalu, and other defendants, Mike Ozekhome, Goddy Uche Kalu, C. A. Uwelunta, and Solo Akumah, all Senior Advocates of Nigeria (SANs), objected to the witness giving evidence in…
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