An Accra Fast Track High Court has adjourned the case of the former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings to October 31. Mrs Rawlings herself was not in court today. She and four others are being tried for wilfully causing financial loss to the state in the divestiture of GIHOC Nsawam Cannery to Caridem Development Company, a company owned by the 31st December Women’s Movement. Mrs Rawlings’s lead lawyer, Tony Lithur apologised to the court for her inability to come to court. She was said to have travelled out of the country. The regular judge Justice Baffoe Bonnie has been appointed Appeals Court Judge and has been replaced in the interim by Justice Ofori Atta, who is sitting as a vacation judge. In effect, the case cannot be heard until a new judge is directed to take over. In view of the development, Mrs Rawlings’s lawyer proposed the October 31 date, by which time a new judge would be named. The former First Lady is standing trial together with former Executive Secretary of the Divestiture Implementation Committee Emmanuel Agbodo, former Finance Minister, Kwame Peprah, Managing Director of Caridem Sherry Ayittey and Thomas Benson Owusu, an accountant.