<p><strong> </strong><strong><em>Rt. Hon. Adeyemi Ikuforiji, 62, former speaker, Lagos State House of Assembly, has been on trial over money laundering filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.</em></strong> <strong>OpenLife <em>reporter, </em>Joke Ashade,<em> reports the latest on the on going trial </em></strong></p>



<p>A Federal
High Court sitting in Lagos,  ;Nigeria,
on March 18, adjoined the trial of the embattled former speaker of the Lagos State House of ; Assembly, Adeyemi Sabit Ikuforiji and
his aide Oyebode Alade Atoyebi over
N673 million alleged money laundering
to September 30.</p>



<p>The case is
before Justice Mohammed Liman.</p>



<p>While the parties who were present in Court awaited for
their matter to be called, ; the registrar
announced the adjournment, saying
that there is directive from the Chief Judge of the court that new cases should
not be opened for trial because
of the impending transfer of Judges. </p>



<p>The ; Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC), had ;
on the 11th of December, 2019 re &#8211; arraigned the former Ikuforiji and
his aide ; Atoyebi before Justice ; Liman following the Supreme Court decision
that the former speaker ; be retried ; for money laundering case. ; </p>



<p>The former speaker and his aide were discharged and
acquitted by a Federal High Court in Lagos of 54 counts amended charge of
laundering N673 million </p>



<p>However when the case was pursued to the Supreme Court on
appeal by the EFCC, the Apex court ordered for a retrial of the case by
re-assigning the case to another judge of the Federal High Court. </p>



<p> ;In a ; 54-count
amended charge of money laundering filed ;
against the former Speaker of ;
Lagos State House of Assembly, ;
Adeyemi Ikuforiji, and his personal assistant, Oyebode Atoyebi before
the court ; it was alleged that Ikuforiji
and Atoyebi between April 2010 and August 2011 conspired together ; to commit illegal act, to wit, accepting
various cash payments amounting to the sum of N 673 million from the Lagos
State House of Assembly without going through financial institution, thereby
committed an offence contrary to Sections 18a of the Money Laundering Act
2011.The two defendants pleaded not guilty, and they are currently on bail
earlier granted them by the court.</p>



<p>Born on August 24, 1958, in Epe Local Government area of Lagos State southwestern Nigeria, Rt. Hon. Adeyemi Ikuforiji is an economist, lawyer, politician and lawmaker </p>



<p>He attended Local Authority Central School in Epe before he proceeded to Epe Grammar School where he obtained the West Africa School Certificate on July 1975.</p>



<p>He received a bachelor&#8217;s and master&#8217;s degrees in economics from Babes-Bolva University and Bucharest Academy of Economic Studies respectively. He later obtained a Master of Business Administration from the University of Lagos in 1980.</p>



<p>He began his political career as the general secretary of the Unity Party of Nigeria . In 2003, he contested the seat of his constituency, Epe constituency I and was elected, member of Lagos State House of Assembly . On December 2005, he was elected as Speaker under the platform of Alliance for Democracy.</p>



<p> On June 4, 2007 he was re-elected for the second term as speaker of the 6th Assembly having emerged as winner of the race from his constituency. On 4 July 2011, he was re-elected again for the third term as speaker of the 7th Assembly that ran till July 3, 2015 when he was charged for corruption following his unsuccessful bid for House of Reps </p>

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