The trial of Esai Dangabar, a former director, Police Pension Board and six  others who are being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for their complicity in the infamous N24billion police pension scam could not continue today as a result of the absence of the fourth defendant, Veronica Onyegbula due to ill health.

Dangabar is standing trial along with Atiku Kigo, Ahmed Inuwa Wada, Veronica Ulonma Onyegbula, Sani Habila Zira, Uzoma Cyril Attang and Christian Madubuke.

At the resumed trail today, counsel to the fourth defendant, Ikeji Ernest Informed Justice Hussein Baba Yusuf that he got a call early in the morning that his client had been hospitalized at the Federal Medical Centre Jabi, Abuja. He consequently asked for an adjournment which was granted by the court.

The court was to have commenced a trial within trial today following Onyegbula's claim that the statements she volunteered to the EFCC in the course of the investigation were not voluntary.

Justice Baba-Yusuf  adjourned further hearing to January 20, 2017.

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30th November, 2016