At the resumed hearing on
Tuesday, Mr Umar’s Counsel, Hassan Liman, informed the court of moves by his
client to have the matter settled out of court.
The former Chief of Air
Staff, Mohammed Umar, who is being tried on a seven-count charge of laundering
N4.8billion has asked for an out-of-court settlement.
Mr. Liman disclosed that
his client has had several meetings with officials of the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC) and a formal letter addressed to the Chairman of the
EFCC, Ibrahim Magu, dated June 6, had already been dispatched.
Mr Liman, therefore urged
the court to grant an adjournment to enable them proceed with the out-of-court
settlement in spite of the fact that the matter had been set down for trial but
the prosecuting counsel, however, insisted that the out-of-court settlement was
not a ground to stop trial since it was not a civil matter.
Justice Nyako, however
adjourned the matter till June 16 for commencement of trial on the ground that
the condition precedent for trial had not been met by the defence as the
defence ought to have filed a summary of defence for the trial to commence.
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