EFCC Press Release
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 Micheal 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
Uwujaren
Head, Media & Publicity
17th April, 2015
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