{"id":525,"date":"2017-03-08T19:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T19:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metronewsng.online\/2017\/03\/court-to-rule-on-ashinzes-statement-march-21.html\/"},"modified":"2017-03-08T19:06:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T19:06:00","slug":"court-to-rule-on-ashinzes-statement-march-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/court-to-rule-on-ashinzes-statement-march-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Court to Rule on Ashinze's Statement March 21"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nA Federal High Court in Abuja will on March 21 rule on whether to admit in evidence the statement of Col. Nicholas Ashinze, in a charge brought against him by the Federal Government.<\/div>\n
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\nAshinze was a former aide to ex National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki. He is being prosecuted on corruption related offences by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission EFCC.<\/div>\n
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\nAt the resumed trial, The EFCC had sought to tender the statement of Ashinze and other document found in his house during a search.<\/a><\/div>\n
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\nThe EFCC told justice Gabriel Kolawole that it wanted the documents to be admitted as exhibits to enable it presents its case diligently.<\/div>\n
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\nThe anti-graft agency said that the documents were vital to its case, hence, the request for their admission.<\/div>\n
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\nBut Ashinze vehemently objected to the admission of the documents on the ground that they were not part of the proof of evidence.<\/div>\n
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\nThe defendant claimed that since the EFCC did not plead the statement, it is too late in the day to seek to tender them in court.<\/div>\n
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\nHe therefore urged the court to reject the bid to tender them against him.<\/div>\n
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\nJustice Kolawole has however fixed March 21 to rule on the issue.<\/div>\n
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\nAshinze and five others are being prosecuted by EFCC on the alleged fraud related offences.<\/div>\n
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\nJustice Kolawole had at the last adjourned date rejected several bank documents sought to be tendered against the defendants by EFCC.<\/div>\n
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\nThe Judge said that the documents were not pleaded in the proof of evidence and that they were not brought to count by proper person that can tender them.<\/div>\n
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A Federal High Court in Abuja will on March 21 rule on whether to admit in evidence the statement of Col. Nicholas Ashinze, in a charge brought against him by the Federal Government.   Ashinze was a former aide to ex National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki. He is being prosecuted on corruption related […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46890,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-default"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}