{"id":60472,"date":"2025-02-04T11:44:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T11:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60472"},"modified":"2025-02-04T11:44:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T11:44:09","slug":"court-acquits-fani-kayode-of-forgery-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/04\/court-acquits-fani-kayode-of-forgery-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Court Acquits Fani-Kayode of Forgery Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Special Offences Court in Ikeja, Lagos, has acquitted former Aviation Minister Femi Fani-Kayode of forgery charges filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).<\/p>\n<p>Justice Olubunmi Abike-Fadipe ruled that the prosecution failed to establish a prima facie case, upholding a no-case submission by Fani-Kayode\u2019s counsel, Norrison Quakers (SAN).<\/p>\n<p>The EFCC had accused Fani-Kayode of forging medical reports to evade trial in a separate N4.9 billion fraud case. Witnesses, including officials from Kubwa General Hospital, testified that the hospital never issued the documents.<\/p>\n<p>Despite prosecution claims that Fani-Kayode paid for the reports, the court found no sufficient evidence linking him to the alleged forgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal The Special Offences Court in Ikeja, Lagos, has acquitted former Aviation Minister Femi Fani-Kayode of forgery charges filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Justice Olubunmi Abike-Fadipe ruled that the prosecution failed to establish a prima facie case, upholding a no-case submission by Fani-Kayode\u2019s counsel, Norrison Quakers (SAN). The EFCC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":60473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1386],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-60472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-judiciary","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60474,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60472\/revisions\/60474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}