N544m fraud: EcoBank staff can’t testify against me – Ex-SGF, Babachir Lawal tells court
The Federal Government had arraigned Lawal for alleged N544M contract fraud.
However, counsel to the former SGF, Chief Akin Olujinmi SAN, objected to the witness giving evidence on the ground that he was not listed by EFCC in its proof of evidence before the court.According to him, “I have looked through the proof of evidence and I cannot see any name like that of the witness. The only name I saw is Obadina Abiola Ganiyu, who made a statement to EFCC on 15/11/2017.
Counsel to other defendants aligned themselves with the submission of the senior lawyer adding that the prosecution wanted to take the defendants by surprise. He further argued that a bank is a juristic person that can always act through a servant, saying, “that being the case, any staff of the bank can be assigned to come to court to speak to its past records.”
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