The trial of the former chairman of the defunct Pension Reform Task Team (PRTT), Abdul-Rasheed Maina continued in Abuja with the trial judge ordering the embattled former pension boss to open his defence.
At the resumed trial, Maina counsel asked for an adjournment on the ground that he is unable to proceed with his no-case submission due to his inability to access the certified true copy of the court’s record of proceedings.
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The application for adjournment was opposed by the prosecutor who insisted that it is only a ploy to stall the trial.
Justice Okon Abang, after listening to both parties foreclosed the right of Maina’s counsel to present a no-case submission and ordered the defendant to open his defence on the twenty-sixth and twenty-seventh, of January 2021.
