DPP’s report stalls ‘N167m fraud charge’
Justice O. Ogunjobi adjourned Adesina and Konu’s arraignment to enable the Lagos State Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice determine whether or not to take over prosecution of the case.
He noted that the adjournment was also in keeping with the COVID-19 regulations of the Lagos State Judiciary. He also noted that the AG is constitutionally empowered to “take over and continue” a case, but that was not the purport of the letter.Agboola said: “All this letter has asked for is an adjournment and not a stay. To that extent, I submit that the provisions of ACJL cited is inapplicable. The AG is not before this court for stay of proceedings. If he was asking for stay of proceedings, he would not be asking for a month away.
“At the end of the day, we find out that most of the time, what is reported in the press is irrelevant to the determination by a judge who is going to consider the facts.”According to the January 24 four-count charge filed by the Force Criminal Investigation and Intelligence Department Ikoyi,, Adesina, 59, and Konu, 44, conspired and committed the offences of stealing, forgery and making documents without authority between 2009 and 2019.
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