{"id":111,"date":"2018-02-23T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/?p=111"},"modified":"2018-03-25T12:31:39","modified_gmt":"2018-03-25T12:31:39","slug":"efcc-says-no-to-plead-bargaining-for-mrs-jumoke-akinjide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/?p=111","title":{"rendered":"EFCC says NO to plead bargaining for Mrs Jumoke Akinjide"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-AYetuiKlLiU\/Wo_IlUGWYqI\/AAAAAAAABRA\/ZZhuAwBshmgkaH2NeChbV6vt-w3I55k3ACLcBGAs\/s1600\/Jumoke_Akinjide1.png\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"225\" data-original-width=\"212\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-AYetuiKlLiU\/Wo_IlUGWYqI\/AAAAAAAABRA\/ZZhuAwBshmgkaH2NeChbV6vt-w3I55k3ACLcBGAs\/s320\/Jumoke_Akinjide1.png\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)&nbsp;opened its case against a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory,&nbsp;<strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Jumoke Akinjide<\/strong>, who was charged with an alleged fraud of&nbsp;<strong style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">N650m.<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">The anti-graft agency called its first witness in the case, after rejecting the proposal by the ex-minister and her co-defendants to settle the case out of court.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;\">Counsel for the EFCC, Mr. Nnaemeka Omewa, told the court that as the settlement terms proposed by the defendants did not comply with the provisions of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act on plea bargain and&nbsp;the anti-graft agency was opting for full trial.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)&nbsp;opened its case against a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory,&nbsp;Jumoke Akinjide, who was charged with an alleged fraud of&nbsp;N650m.&nbsp;&nbsp; The anti-graft agency called &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":295,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111\/revisions\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}