Dokpesi: am not guilty!!!

The proprietor of Africa Independent Television, Mr Raymond Dokpesi, has argued not liable to a six-tally charge of false and degenerate act favored against him by the Federal legislature of Nigeria.

Mr Dokpesi was charged on Wednesday under the watchful eye of a Federal High Court managed by Justice Gabriel Kolawole in Abuja, Nigeria's capital.

He said he was by no means liable, as the charges favored against him were not genuine.

In tally one of the charge, Mr Dokpesi and DAAR Investment and Holding Company Limited were blamed for getting open assets to the tune of 2.1 billion Naira from the record of the workplace of the National Security Adviser with the Central Bank of Nigeria for the financing of media exercises for the 2015 presidential crusade of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in opposition to Section 58 Sub-segment Four B of the Public Procurement Act, 2007.

In alternate tallies, Mr Dokpesi was likewise blamed for gathering the said sum without an authentication of no complaint to contract honor properly issued by the Public Procurement Bureau and getting installment for an indicated contract without offering for the said contract.

Having argued not blameworthy to every one of the charges, Justice Kolawole dismissed the knowing about Mr Dokpesi's safeguard application to December 10.

The judge altered February 17 and 18 and in addition March 2 and 3, 2016 for the trial.

In spite of the fact that, the prosecutor, Rotimi Jacobs, declined a meeting, attorney to the previous Chairman of Daar Communications, Ifedayo Adedipe, rejected the charges against his customer.