Halliburton scam: Obj's aide knows fate Feb 6

A Federal HighCourt sitting inAbuja, on Monday, fixed February 6, 2012 to determine whether it has jurisdiction to dock an aide to former President Olusegun Obasanjo, Mr Adeyanju Bodunde, who was alleged to have been involved in $180 million Halliburton bribery scandal.The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) had earlier filed a fresh six-count criminal charge against Bodunde and prayed the court to jettison the previous charge it filed against the accused over the matter and proceed with taking his plea on the fresh criminal charge.The anti-graft agency insisted that it had uncovered more incriminating proof of evidence that established the involvement of Bodunde in the $180 million Halliburton bribery scandal.However, counsel to the accused, Oluwole Aladeloye, who also had earlier resisted attempts by the anti-graft agency to dock his client on Monday adopted his argument, challenging the jurisdiction of the court and the competency of the new charge against him.Aladedoye argued that the new charge was incurably defective because all the amendment made by EFCC were brought under Money Laundering Act (amendment), 2000 which he said, was not in existence in our statutory books.
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