Alleged Fraud: Iwu’s Case Remains In Lagos, Court Insists
A Federal High Court in Lagos has dismissed an application filed by a former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, Prof Maurice Iwu, seeking the transfer of his N1.23bn fraud trial from Lagos to Abuja.
At the last court proceedings, Counsel to the former INEC boss, Ahmed Raji told Justice Oweibo that the transfer is necessary so as not to subject the defendant to great hardship.He said that Iwu resides in Abuja but always travels to Lagos whenever the case is coming up. “Then he books a hotel. It will amount to great agony for him to continue with this trial in Lagos,” he said.
On his part, EFCC Counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo asked the court to refuse the application because all the witnesses listed in the proof of evidence including the bank officials reside in Lagos and Ibadan. He also argued that it was the Lagos Zonal office of the anti-graft agency that investigated the case.
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