N338m misrepresentation: Ex-Lagos Speaker, Ikuforiji, learns destiny Jan. 12

The Supreme Court has saved judgment till January 12, 2018 on account of a previous Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Adeyemi Ikuforiji, who was accused of an asserted N338m extortion.

The zenith court will decide if Ikuforiji ought to be attempted once again as requested by the Court of Appeal.

The ex-Speaker had prior been pardoned of the extortion charges by Justice Ibrahim Buba of the Federal High Court in Lagos.

Equity Buba, in a decision in September 2014, held that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission neglected to set up a by all appearances body of evidence against Ikuforiji and rejected the 56 means something negative for him.

The EFCC, which was disappointed with Justice Buba's decision, engaged the Court of Appeal, which, in November 2016, upset Justice Buba's decision and requested that Ikuforiji ought to be attempted once more under the steady gaze of another judge.

Be that as it may, Ikuforiji rejected the investigative court's choice and went to the Supreme Court in 2016.

The Supreme Court, it was learnt, has settled judgment for the situation for January 12.

In the interim, the Supreme Court has rejected an interest documented by Ikuforiji's ex-helper, Oyebode Atoyebi, with whom he was accused of a claimed N338m misrepresentation.

The zenith court insisted the Court of Appeal judgment that Atoyebi had a case to answer and that his case record ought to be come back to the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court for re-task.

The EFCC had battled that Justice Buba failed in law when he articulated that the charges against Ikuforiji and Atoyebi were clumsy in light of the fact that they were brought under the Money Laundering Act 2004, said to have been revoked by the Money Laundering Act 2011.

The EFCC prosecutor, Chief Godwin Obla (SAN), had in one of the 10 grounds of the interest battled that the lower court wasn't right to have reasoned that Section 1 of the MLA connected just to characteristic people and corporate bodies and not to government elements like the Office of the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly.

Obla had kept up that administration elements were not rejected from the arrangement of the MLA that money installments ought not be made over the stipulated edge.

Besides, the EFCC legal counselor battled that the finish of Justice Buba that the entries of the two witnesses called by the EFCC upheld the blamelessness of Ikuforiji and Atoyebi.

Obla kept up that in spite of Justice Buba's decision, none of the witnesses really affirmed that Ikuforiji and Atoyebi did not get money installments over the limit stipulated by the MLA 2004 and 2011, which as per him was the substance of the charges.

"The proof of the arraignment witnesses that installments to the respondents were planned for and endorsed by the legislative head of Lagos State does not bolster the guiltlessness of the respondents."

In its penultimate grounds of claim, Obla stated, "The lower court failed in law when it held that the indictment's first witness affirmed that he didn't know anything about the case.

"PW1, under round of questioning on June 5, 2014, affirmed that he actually completed examination concerning this issue.

"There was no proof that PW1 said he didn't know anything about this issue.

"The discoveries of the lower court are not upheld by the confirmation under the watchful eye of the lower court."