Justice Rilwan Aikawa Takes Over NBA President Paul Usoro’s N1.8Bn Fraud Case
Following the decision by Justice Chuka Obiozor of Federal High Court Lagos who last Thursday morning disqualified himself from handling the N1.8bn alleged fraud against Paul Usoro, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, and President of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA the case has been assigned to Justice Rilwan Aikawa.
Nigerian anti graft agency had filed a 10-count charge against Usoro, over allegations relating to converting to personal use, concealing the source of, disguising the origin of and retaining in his account sums of money to the tune of billions of Naira belonging to the Akwa Ibom State government.
The criminal charge was preferred against the embattled NBA President who was drag to court last year by the economic and financial crime commission EFCC.
This is the third judge that would be handling the case. Last year, when Mr Usoro was charged, Justice Muslim Hassan excused himself from the trial and returned the case file for reassignment,
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