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Speaker 1: Economic and Financial Crimes Commission AFCAC, in a news release

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on Friday, reported that Federal High Court Setting in Abuja’s

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top the arrangement of former Coggiste Governor the Higher Adoza Below,

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after the former governor told the court he was not

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yet prepared for the case. According to ya Hire Below,

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he was here to mobilize his legal team for the

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eighty point two billion naira’s money laundering allegations. Hence he

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told the court he should be given more time to

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prepare for the case. Details of the EFCAC news release

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rates below weber team. A Federal High Court setting in

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Abuja has slettered the arraendment of the former Cogiste Governor,

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the Higher Adoza Below for December thirteen, twenty twenty four.

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Justice and Mecca inuite on Friday, November twenty nine, twenty

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twenty four, directors the court’s registrar to issue a hearing

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notice to Below’s legal team regarding his arraendment. The Economic

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and Financial Crimes Commission FCC is prosecuting Below on nineteen

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count charge of money laundering to the tune of eighteen

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point two billion niners. Addressing the court about the former

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governor’s presence in court. Prosecution Council Kenny Pinherro san urged

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the court to proceed with the arraignment, stating that the

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defendant’s presence satisfied the legal requirement for the process in

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view of his physical presence in court and relying on

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sections two hundred and seventy one to two hundred and

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seventy seven and section three hundred and ninety two of

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the Administration of Criminal Justice at ACJAI, respectfully applied that

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the charge being to the defendant his flee be taken

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and my Lordship adjoint for further proceedings. He said. He

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referenced to Courts of Appeal rulings detured August twentieth, twenty

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twenty four, which upheld a defendant’s presence in court as

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satisfactory in love for his arraignment, and further gotrussed his

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with the fact that Bello had failed to appear in

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court on several occasions, prompting an application for his trial

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in absentire. Bello, in his response, informed the court that

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he had not mobilized his legal team on the arrangement

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and pleaded for time to do so. Justice Inwitty, in

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a short ruling adjointed to December thirteen, twenty twenty four,

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to enable the prosecution to solve the defendant’s counsel with

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the necessary processes. In addition, the court directed the Registrar

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to issue a hearing notice to Below’s legal team and

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order that the former governor be remanded in the custody

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of the EFCACS. Lady Greendale, you need in a mort

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