Justice A.R. Mohammed of a Federal
High Court, Abuja has fixed March 27, 2019 for adoption of written addresses in
a no-case submission filed by Andrew Yakubu, who is standing trial for a
six-count charge, bordering on money laundering offence and false declaration
of assets.
The former Group Managing Director
of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, had filed a “no-case”
submission on December 5, 2018 through Anone Usman, standing in for his
counsel, Ahmed Raji, SAN, asking the court to strike the charges against him
and acquit him of any wrongdoing.
Usman had argued that the evidence
led by the prosecution’s seven witnesses did not establish a case against
Yakubu, and so there was nothing for him to defend.
At today’s proceeding, January 17,
2019, the prosecuting counsel, M.S. Abubakar, informed the court that it had
filed its written address dated January 15, 2019 and filed on January 16, 2019
in respect of Yakubu’s application, which was dated November 6, 2018.
The EFCC had, based on intelligence
report, raided Yakubu's house located at Chikun road, Sabin Tasha area of
Kaduna South, on February 3, 2017, and recovered $9,772,800 and £74,000 stashed
in a huge fire proof safe, which Yakubu said were gifts given to him by friends
and well wishers.
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