Court Adjourns Naira Marley’s Case As EFCC Presents More Evidence

• EFCC presents more evidence against Naira Marley

• ….Court adjourns till September 26

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that the trial of Azeez Fashola, better known by his stage name Naira Marley, reopened on Friday before Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court in Ikoyi, Lagos State, with a prosecution witness, EFCC agent Dein Whyte, continuing his proof.

This was even as the court dismissed the defendant’s objection to the forensic evidence earlier presented by the witness.

Fashola is standing trial on an 11-count charge bordering on credit card fraud brought against him by the anti-graft agency.

At the last sitting on June 9, 2022, the defence counsel, Olalekan Ojo, objected to the witness’s opinion on the forensic evidence linking the defendant to credit card fraud. He had argued that only the court could make pronouncements on the defendant’s culpability, not an investigator.

At the resumed trial on Friday, Justice Oweibo delivered a short ruling in which he dismissed the defence’s objection.

According to him: “It is the duty of the law enforcement agency or police, charging a person to court to investigate if the defendant committed the crime or not.

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“The investigator must be able to link the defendant to the commission of the crime. The prosecutor must have made up his mind as to the involvement of the defendant before bringing the case to court. I do not agree that the prosecution has declared the defendant guilty,”

The judge thereafter adjourned the trial till September 26.

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