Former Lagos Speaker, Ikuforiji to be re-arraigned Dec 11

A former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji has been scheduled for re-arraignment on December 11, 2019 over an amended charge of money laundering.

Ikuforiji will be re-arraigned alongside his aide, Oyebode Atoyebi on 54 counts.

Justice Mohammed Liman of the Federal High Court, Lagos, fixed December 11, 2019, for their re-arraignment on Wednesday after the defence counsel, Mr Tunde Akinrinmisi, prayed for an adjournment.

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The prosecuting counsel for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), while grudgingly conceding to the adjournment, lamented that “This is a case that the prosecution has given evidence and closed its case but Justice Ibrahim Buba discharged the defendants on no-case submission, which travelled from here up to the Supreme Court. Here we are five years after.”

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