Speaker 1: Economic and Financial Crimes Commission AFCAC, in a news release
Speaker 1: on Friday, reported that Federal High Court Setting in Abuja's
Speaker 1: top the arrangement of former Coggiste Governor the Higher Adoza Below,
Speaker 1: after the former governor told the court he was not
Speaker 1: yet prepared for the case. According to ya Hire Below,
Speaker 1: he was here to mobilize his legal team for the
Speaker 1: eighty point two billion naira's money laundering allegations. Hence he
Speaker 1: told the court he should be given more time to
Speaker 1: prepare for the case. Details of the EFCAC news release
Speaker 1: rates below weber team. A Federal High Court setting in
Speaker 1: Abuja has slettered the arraendment of the former Cogiste Governor,
Speaker 1: the Higher Adoza Below for December thirteen, twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Justice and Mecca inuite on Friday, November twenty nine, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, directors the court's registrar to issue a hearing
Speaker 1: notice to Below's legal team regarding his arraendment. The Economic
Speaker 1: and Financial Crimes Commission FCC is prosecuting Below on nineteen
Speaker 1: count charge of money laundering to the tune of eighteen
Speaker 1: point two billion niners. Addressing the court about the former
Speaker 1: governor's presence in court. Prosecution Council Kenny Pinherro san urged
Speaker 1: the court to proceed with the arraignment, stating that the
Speaker 1: defendant's presence satisfied the legal requirement for the process in
Speaker 1: view of his physical presence in court and relying on
Speaker 1: sections two hundred and seventy one to two hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy seven and section three hundred and ninety two of
Speaker 1: the Administration of Criminal Justice at ACJAI, respectfully applied that
Speaker 1: the charge being to the defendant his flee be taken
Speaker 1: and my Lordship adjoint for further proceedings. He said. He
Speaker 1: referenced to Courts of Appeal rulings detured August twentieth, twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four, which upheld a defendant's presence in court as
Speaker 1: satisfactory in love for his arraignment, and further gotrussed his
Speaker 1: with the fact that Bello had failed to appear in
Speaker 1: court on several occasions, prompting an application for his trial
Speaker 1: in absentire. Bello, in his response, informed the court that
Speaker 1: he had not mobilized his legal team on the arrangement
Speaker 1: and pleaded for time to do so. Justice Inwitty, in
Speaker 1: a short ruling adjointed to December thirteen, twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: to enable the prosecution to solve the defendant's counsel with
Speaker 1: the necessary processes. In addition, the court directed the Registrar
Speaker 1: to issue a hearing notice to Below's legal team and
Speaker 1: order that the former governor be remanded in the custody
Speaker 1: of the EFCACS. Lady Greendale, you need in a mort
Speaker 1: digital