The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, has filed an amended cost against Adeniyi Adeyemi, who allegedly introduced himself because the director-general of the non-existent Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, PFIPC.
The fee has elevated the charges from 22 to 36 and added 4 different defendants to the case.
ICPC’s prosecuting counsel, Sylvanus Tahir, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, disclosed this throughout proceedings on Monday.
The 4 newly named defendants are Aminu Abdullahi, Ogaba Harry, Florence Omameh and Patricia Akhigbe.
The arraignment couldn’t proceed as a result of the fourth defendant, Omameh, was absent because of well being causes. The different defendants had been current.
Explaining why the prosecution couldn’t proceed, Tahir advised the courtroom: “Her unavailability in court has constrained the prosecution from proceeding with the arraignment, this being a criminal charge.”
He cited Section 266 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, ACJA, arguing that defendants have to be current all through their trial, besides in circumstances allowed by the regulation.
He consequently requested the courtroom to grant a brief adjournment to allow Omameh to get well and seem for her plea.
Adeyemi’s lawyer, Ibrahim Angulu, SAN, didn’t oppose the amended charges or the request for an adjournment.
However, he drew the courtroom’s consideration to the size of time his shopper had spent in detention.
Justice Yusuf Halilu subsequently adjourned the case till November 18 for the arraignment of all of the defendants.
The choose additionally directed that Adeyemi be returned to the Kuje Correctional Facility, whereas the opposite defendants had been ordered again to the ICPC detention facility.
