Alleged N5.78b Diversion: Absence of witness stalls trial of ex-Gov Abdulfatah, Commissioner Banu

The proceedings of erstwhile Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed and his concern commissioner, Ademola Banu, successful the alleged diversion of N5.78b SUBEB money astatine the Kwara State High Court successful Ilorin was stalled on Monday due to the lack of 2 witnesses successful the case.

Ahmed and Banu are being prosecuted implicit alleged diversion of implicit N5.78 cardinal money of the State Universal Basic Education Board  (SUBEB) for the outgo of wage of the state’s civilian servants.

After a little round-off of transverse introspection of a prosecution witness, Stanley Ujilibo, whose grounds was moved from the past sitting, the prosecution counsel, Adebisi Adeniyi, told the could that the adjacent witnesses were unavoidably absent and requested an adjournment to different day with the assurance that the witnesses would beryllium contiguous astatine the adjacent sitting.

However, earlier the petition for adjournment, Ujilibo, portion being crossed examined by Kamaldeen Ajibade, SAN, the pb counsel to the archetypal defendant, Ahmed, told the tribunal that helium would not cognize if 1 Ayoola Idowu, a civilian servant who\ petitioned the EFCC astir the alleged diversion benefited from the money arsenic wage outgo to him.

Ajibade had queried whether Idowu, arsenic a civilian servant benefitted from the money erstwhile it was allegedly utilized to wage wage of the state’s workers.

Also, the witnesser erstwhile being cross-examined ...