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Ghost Firms Received N1.7 Billion From Ex-Niger Governor, Babangida Aliyu, Witness Tells Court
Muhammad Ndawuye Nmadu, a witness in the money laundering trial of Aliyu and two others, Tanko Beji and Umar Muhammad Nasko, told Justice Mikail Aliyu of a Minna High Court on Wednesday.
by SaharaReporters, New York
Apr 01, 2021
Three contractors who allegedly collected N1.7 billion for jobs during the Babangida Aliyu administration in Niger State are nowhere to be found.
Muhammad Ndawuye Nmadu, a witness in the money laundering trial of Aliyu and two others, Tanko Beji and Umar Muhammad Nasko, told Justice Mikail Aliyu of a Minna High Court on Wednesday.
THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says it hopes to overturn the rulings that freed Orji Kalu, current Senate chief whip and Olisa Metuh, former national publicity secretary of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) from prison this year.
The commission, through its monthly publication entitled ‘EFCC Alert’ listed Babachir Lawal, former secretary to the government of the federation; Adesola Amosu, former chief of air staff; Abdulrasheed Maina, former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team; Andrew Yakubu, former group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC); Babangida Aliyu, former governor of Niger state, and Winifred Oyo-Ita, former head of civil service of the federation as some of the prominent Nigerians whose corruption cases would continue in court this year.
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The ex-governor and Umar Nasko, his former chief of staff, were arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on eight counts of money laundering before Nnamdi Dimgba, a judge, in 2017.
They were accused of diverting N1.9 billion ecological fund which the state received from the federal government in 2014.
The case was, however, transferred to Bogoro after the defendants made an application, insisting that the case be transferred to Niger where the offences were alleged to have been committed.
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However, Abdu-Kafarati, the then chief judge of the federal high court, withdrew the case file from Bogoro and reassigned it Aliyu Bappa based on a petition by EFCC.
By Taiye Agbaje
Abuja, Jan. 18, 2020 The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Monday, ordered the resumption of trial in the N1.9 billion money laundering charge against former Governor of Niger, Babangida Aliyu.
Delivering judgment, Justice Inyang Ekwo, dismissed an administrative directive that okayed the trial of Aliyu, which started in 2017, to start de-novo (fresh).
Naija247news reports that the ex-governor is facing an eight count money laundering charge alongside his former Chief of Staff and governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state, Umar Nasko, filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Ekwo held that former Chief Judge (CJ) of the Court, Justice Abdul Abdul-Kafarati, acted in breach of Section 98(2) of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) 2015, when he re-assigned the case-file to a new judge for a fresh trial, after EFCC had called 10 witnesses in the matter and tendered several exhibits in evidence.