Court admits newspaper publications as evidence in Emefiele’s trial

An Abuja High Court on Monday admitted 5 paper publications and certification receipts from the National Library of Nigeria arsenic grounds successful the ongoing proceedings of erstwhile Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele.

Justice Maryanne Anenih admitted the materials and marked them arsenic evidence, aft the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, tendered them  through a subpoenaed witness, Jegede Oluwasegun, an authoritative of the National Library of Nigeria.

Emefiele is being prosecuted connected a four-count complaint bordering connected disobedience to the absorption of instrumentality and amerciable enactment causing wounded to the public.

The offence, the EFCC said, contravened the provisions of Section 123 of the Penal Code, Cap 89 Laws of the Federation, 1990 and punishable nether the aforesaid law.

He, however, pleaded not blameworthy to the charge.

At the resumed proceeding successful the lawsuit on Monday, the witnesser was taken successful grounds by Rotimi Oyedepo, SAN, the EFCC counsel.

The witness, who is the prosecution witnesser 8 (PW 8), gave a elaborate relationship of his docket of duty.