Court Admits More Evidence In Singer Naira Marley’s Fraud Trial

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos State has admitted more exhibits as evidence in the ongoing fraud trial of singer Azeez Fashola, better known as Naira Marley.

Trial judge, Justice Nicholas Oweibo of the Federal High Court, Lagos admitted a C.D containing the phone analysis of the embattled singer. The CD had been tendered in evidence at a previous proceeding by Anosike Augustine, a mobile forensic expert with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).

Anosike who is the second prosecution witness in the EFCC had told the court that how he analyzed the contents of the iPhone 11 allegedly retrieved from Naira Marley during an investigation.

According to Channel Television, Counsel to Naira Marley, Olalekan Ojo, SAN had objected to the admissibility of the evidence. In his ruling delivered this morning, Justice Oweibo overruled the objections of the counsel and admitted the C.D in evidence.

The judge said, ”l have considered the agreement of both parties as well as the ground for the objection, I consider the C.D to be admissible in view of the nature of this case and the evidence of other prosecution witnesses.

Accordingly, it is hereby admitted in evidence and marked exhibit F.

The trial of the case could however not go on after the ruling as the defence counsel, Olalekan Ojo was not in court.”

Justice Oweibo adjourned to the 8th and 11th of March, for the continuation of trial.

Recall that EFCC had on May 20, 2019, arraigned Naira Marley on 11 counts of money laundering and Internet fraud.