{"id":70625,"date":"2019-11-28T03:51:57","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T02:51:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=70625"},"modified":"2019-11-28T03:51:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T02:51:57","slug":"maina-court-rules-in-favour-of-prosecution-on-admissibility-of-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/maina-court-rules-in-favour-of-prosecution-on-admissibility-of-evidence\/","title":{"rendered":"Maina: Court Rules in Favour of Prosecution on Admissibility of Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Federal High Court, Abuja, presided over by Justice Okon Abang, on<\/div>\n
\n
Tuesday November 26, 2019, ruled in favour of the prosecution on
\nadmissibility of the documents, sought to be tendered by prosecution
\nwitness in the matter involving Abdulrasheed Abdulahi Maina, former
\nchairman of Pension Reform Task Team, which the defence team had opposed
\nits admissibility on November 22, 2019 sitting of the court.<\/p>\n

Prosecution counsel, M.S Abubakar, had on said date, presented the first
\nprosecution witness (PW1), Mairo Abdulahi Bashir, a business manager
\nwith the United Bank for Africa, UBA, who gave an account of how he
\nopened bank accounts for the first defendant and that of a company
\nallegedly belonging to him (Common Input and Properties Limited) and
\nsought to tender the accounts documents\u00a0 that included, account opening
\npackages, bank statements, certification and mandate cards in evidence,
\nwhich defence counsel, Francis Orasanye opposed on the grounds that the
\ndocuments are ought to tendered by the person who signed them, citing
\nSection 33 (1) (a) of the Evidence Act which states that a certificate
\ntendered must be tendered by the maker of the said documents or be
\nthrown out by the court.<\/p>\n

The documents also allegedly contained fictitious financial transactions
\nin local and foreign currencies traced to Maina.<\/p>\n

In his ruling today, Justice Abang said tendering the documents by the
\nprosecution witness was in compliance with Section 84 of the Evidenced
\nAct, adding that the person who signed the documents did not act in
\npersonal capacity, but as a representative of UBA.<\/p>\n

According to him, since the witness is branch manager of UBA, neither
\nthe UBA nor the witness has interest in the matter before the court.<\/p>\n

He admitted the documents in evidence, marked as Exhibits B1, B2 and B3
\nrespectively, and adjourned until November 27, 2019, for continuation of
\nthe trial.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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