The trial of former Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed and his finance commissioner, Ademola Banu, in the alleged diversion of N5.78b SUBEB fund at the Kwara State High Court in Ilorin was stalled on Monday due to the absence of two witnesses in the case.
Ahmed and Banu are being prosecuted over alleged diversion of over N5.78 billion fund of the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) for the payment of salary of the state’s civil servants.
After a brief round-off of cross examination of a prosecution witness, Stanley Ujilibo, whose testimony was moved from the last sitting, the prosecution counsel, Adebisi Adeniyi, told the could that the next witnesses were unavoidably absent and requested an adjournment to another date with the assurance that the witnesses would be present at the next sitting.
However, before the request for adjournment, Ujilibo, while being crossed examined by Kamaldeen Ajibade, SAN, the lead counsel to the first
