{"id":3047,"date":"2016-01-27T09:24:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T08:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/?p=3047"},"modified":"2016-01-27T09:28:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T08:28:02","slug":"ohakims-son-allegedly-trails-prosecution-witness-over-2-9m-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/?p=3047","title":{"rendered":"Ohakim\u2019s Son Allegedly Trails Prosecution Witness Over $2.9m Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ohakim\u2019s Son Allegedly Trails Prosecution Witness Over $2.9m Fraud An unimaginable drama, on Tuesday, January 26, 2016, stalled the cross-examination of prosecution witness, Abu Sule in the case involving a former governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim, as prosecution counsel, Festus Keyamo, revealed how the accused\u2019s son, Emeka Ohakim, had allegedly went on the trail of the prosecution witness. Ohakim is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for allegedly making a cash payment of $2, 290,000.00 (two million, two hundred and ninety-thousand dollars) for a piece of land at Plot No. 1098 Cadastral Zone A04, Asokoro District, otherwise known as No. 60, Kwame Nkuruma Street, Asokoro, Abuja. Addressing Justice Adeniyi Ademola of the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, Keyamo said the PW2, Sule, managing director, Tweenex Consociate H.D. Limited, phoned him about9.00p.m. on Monday, January 25, 2016, saying that the second son of the defendant, Emeka Ohakim, had gone to his( Sule) office at Asokoro to inquire about his home address from some individuals. According to Keyamo, Ohakim had allegedly approached three people, whose names he gave simply as Okon (a driver), Akpabor (a driver) and Shola (an architect), for Sule\u2019s home address. He said:\u00a0 \u201cWe don\u2019t want to distract the court from this trial. But I thought it goes beyond the issue of counsel to counsel because it touches on the administration of justice and protection of the witness concerned. \u201cWe will apply, at this stage, that a word of caution and concern go out. If it repeats itself, we shall bring appropriate application before the court over the development.\u201d However, in his response, lead counsel to the defendant, Chris Uche, SAN, expressed shock at what he described as Keyamo\u2019s outburst, saying that the matter should have been discussed at another gathering rather than blowing it in the open. According to him, \u201cI have no doubt that what the prosecution has said amounts to destabilizing the defence. Keyamo had been sitting directly behind us for more than one hour before the case was called, but he didn\u2019t raise the matter. He also saw the defendant eyeball to eyeball when he came to our seats, yet he didn\u2019t discuss the matter. Now, it is on the Internet and it will be in the presstomorrow.\u201d The defence counsel, who further urged the court to dismiss the story as unfounded, said the prosecution could file an application on the matter as he had mentioned to the court. After listening to both counsel, Justice Adeniyi, who was visibly disturbed about the allegation, said there was no harm if the prosecution had hinted the defendant and his counsels about the incident. \u201cI am a bit disturbed. It is a very serious allegation. We can\u2019t deny the fact that it also touches on the defendant himself. Alternatively, you could have asked to seek audience with me in chambers in the presence of the defence counsel and the defendant\u2019,\u201d he said. The defence counsel further told the court that the prosecution had failed to handle the matter properly, adding that his action was not in consonance with a traditional belief that says an elder should report any act of misconduct by a child to his father. In his reaction, Keyamo said:\u00a0 \u201cI find it extremely objectionable. He has said things about my person, whereas I have never said anything about him. I will not treat an issue of threat to life in private! There is no rule of legal practice that says such an issue should be discussed in private. It depends on my judgment.\u201d Consequently, Justice Ademola \"image\"<\/a> adjourned the case to Wednesday, January 27, 2016 for continuation of trial. culled:pmnews.<\/p>\n

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Ohakim\u2019s Son Allegedly Trails Prosecution Witness Over $2.9m Fraud An unimaginable drama, on Tuesday, January 26, 2016, stalled the cross-examination of prosecution witness, Abu Sule in the case involving a former governor of Imo State, […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[183,446,445],"class_list":["post-3047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-efcc","tag-emeka-ohakim","tag-gov-ikedi-ohakim"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3047"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3049,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3047\/revisions\/3049"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.faithirabor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}