“I urge your lordship to permit us, the prosecution read the charges to the accused for them to take their pleas.”
The Economic and Financial Crime Commission on Monday re-arraigned former Governor of Plateau, Sen. Jonah Jang and a cashier at the Office of the Secretary to the State Government, SSG, Yusuf Pam, on alleged N6.3 billion fraud.
In 2018, Justice Daniel Longji, on his last sitting on the bench on Dec. 29, 2019, dismissed the defendants’ no-case-submission, and held that the defendants had a case to answer. “I urge your lordship to permit us, the prosecution read the charges to the accused for them to take their pleas, ” Otolade pleaded.Otolade then applied for an adjournment to enable the prosecution prepare for its case against the defendants.But Jang’s lawyer, Mr Edward Pwajok, SAN, opposed the application for adjournment and pleaded with the court to allow the bail earlier granted his clients on May 24, 2018, to continue.
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