{"id":217463,"date":"2022-09-19T22:45:26","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T21:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/?p=217463"},"modified":"2022-09-19T22:45:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T21:45:26","slug":"ex-gov-lamido-has-case-to-answer-over-alleged-n712m-fraud-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/09\/19\/ex-gov-lamido-has-case-to-answer-over-alleged-n712m-fraud-court-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-gov Lamido has case to answer over alleged N712m fraud, court rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal High Court in Abuja has ruled that a former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, and his co-defendants have a case to answer with regard to the N712 milllion money laundering charges filed against him.<\/p>\n<p>Ijeoma Ojukwu, the trial judge, on Monday, in a ruling dismissing the no-case submission filed by Mr Lamido.<\/p>\n<p>The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is prosecuting Mr Lamido alongside two of his sons \u2013 Aminu Sule Lamido and Mustapha Sule Lamido \u2013 and others on money laundering charges involving N712,008,035.<\/p>\n<p>Another of the co-defendants is the Lamidos\u2019 business associate, Aminu Wada Abubakar.<\/p>\n<p>The rest are four companies \u2013 Bamaina Company Nigeria Limited, Bamaina Aluminium Limited, Speeds International Limited \u2013 and Batholomew Darlignton Agoha.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants face 37 amended charges in all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/news\/2022\/08\/24\/emperor-wike-will-be-in-political-dustbin-in-eight-months-sule-lamido\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lamido<\/a> had filed a no-case submission after the prosecution finished calling its witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>He alleged that the evidence provided by the prosecution did not disclose any case against him.<\/p>\n<p>He, therefore, called on the judge to dismiss the charges as, according to him, there was no need for him enter any defence.<\/p>\n<p>But, ruling on Monday, the judge, Mrs Ojukwu, upheld the submissions of EFCC\u2019s counsel, Chile Okoroma, that the defendants had a case to answer, according to a statement by EFCC\u2019s spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren.<\/p>\n<p>The judge ordered him to open his defence on 8 to 11 November 8, the next hearing dates picked on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Lamido, the Jigawa State governor between 2007 and 2015, was first arraigned along with his co-defendants before Evelyn Anyadike, a judge of the Federal High Court in Kano, on 9 July 2015, for allegedly misappropriating funds belonging to Jigawa State.<\/p>\n<p>He had been re-arraigned on different occasions before his case was reassigned to Mrs Ojukwu.<\/p>\n<p>He and his co-defendants were re-arraigned before Justice Ojukwu on 14 February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal High Court in Abuja has ruled that a former governor of Jigawa State, Sule Lamido, and his co-defendants have a case to answer with regard to the N712 milllion money laundering charges filed against him. 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