The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission will, on March 15 2018, arraign the Chairman of the Code of Conduct Tribunal, Danladi Umar, on charges of demanding and receiving favour from a defendant standing trial before the CCT in 2012.
The EFCC, through a private lawyer, Mr. Festus Keyamo, had, on February 2, 2018, filed the charges against Umar before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
It was learnt that the case had been assigned to Justice Ishaq Bello, who had subsequently fixed March 15 for the arraignment.
The prosecution in the case marked, “CR/109/18” accused Umar of demanding N10million as favour from a defendant standing trial before the CCT, Rasheed Owolabi Taiwo, in 2012.
