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 Michael
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
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