Anti-corruption and elections / EFCC

Alleged N4bn Fraud: EFCC Decries Obiano’s Delay Tactics

Lead prosecution counsel in the trial of Willie Obiano , former governor of Anambra state, Sylvanus Tahir, SAN, on Thursday, March 7, 2024, accused the defence team of Obiano of allegedly evading prosecution’s service of a counter-affidavit. Obiano is facing trial by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on a nine-count charge of embezzlement and money laundering to the tune of N4 billion before Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja. At Thursday’s session, Tahir told the court that the prosecution fruitlessly knocked at the gate of the chambers of the lea…