The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, has accused a cousin of the former Gombe State Governor,
Danjuma Goje, for allegedly paying over N1.4billion in six years to supply food
to the state government house.
The anti-graft agency told a
Federal High Court in Jos on Monday.
A prosecution witness, Saliu
Sambo, a Director of Administration and Finance in the state, gave evidence on
details of food supply from 2003 to 2011 during Goje’s administration.
Goje is being prosecuted by the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on charges bordering on
conspiracy and money laundering.
Sambo said the food contractor
was the former governor’s cousin, adding that N1,451,682,518.6 was paid to the
contractor between 2003 and 2011.
Another witness, Mohammed
Balbaya, a cashier at the Government House, confirmed that the food contractor
was paid N1,451,682,518.6 between 2003 and 2011.
Another witness, an Assistant
Director of Finance and Account, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC),
tendered a certified true copy of Federal Government’s Approved Guidelines for
Accessing and Utilisation of the UBE Intervention Fund, issued in March 2006.
He also tendered a copy of
Federal Ministry of Education Circular of September 9, 2008 and signed by Goke
Adegboroye, entitled: Re: Review of the disbursement formula of the Federal
Government’s two per cent of Consolidated Revenue Fund as Intervention to the
UBE Programme.
Adegboroye said the supply of
dictionaries, allegedly done under the Goje administration, was not covered by
the guidelines.
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Is the EFCC blinded from the atrocities in Lagos and Rivers????
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