Liberia: Ecobank Employees' Defense Split

13 September 2012

Five employees of Ecobank-Liberia indicted in 2011 for allegedly stealing over US$178,000.00 witnessed their divided legal counsels at Criminal Court "C" struggling to obtain court's permission to separately cross-examine state's first witness Olufemi Adunkle.

Argument began at the Temple of Justice Wednesday when defense lawyer Cllr. Arthur T. Johnson insisted to separately cross examine Ecobank's Head of Internal Audit Olufemi Adunkle, who had already been cross-examined by one of the defense counsels Lavala Karboi Johnson.

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