A former Chief of Administration,
Nigerian Air Force (NAF) headquarters, Air Vice Marshal Mohammed Alkali Mamu
(rtd), on Monday told Justice Salisu Garba of the High Court of the Federal
Capital Territory (FCT) that he was tutored and teleguided by the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, in making his statement.
He is standing trial on a four
count amended charges of corruption and bribery preferred against him by the
commission.
Mamu, while being led in evidence
by his counsel, Chief Joseph Daudu, SAN, narrated how the EFCC suppressed part
of his statement and also threatened to involve his two daughters should he
fail to refund the money he was being accused of collecting as bribe.
He explained that his request
that his lawyers be present during his interrogation and his subsequent writing
of his statement was turned down on the grounds that all they were after was
the recovery of funds.
He said though he was accompanied
to the EFCC’s office by one Commander Sunday Jigawa who was at that time NAF
Deputy Director, the operatives refused to allow him be by his side.
“The first statement I wrote is
not before this court. The additional statement marked n1 and n4 obtained from
St1 was removed from the statement I made.
”Again I noticed that the
supporting documents I submitted both in st1 and St 2 are not before this
court,” he said.
Mamu told the court that his
vehicles impounded by the EFCC are still in the custody of the anti-graft
agency and prayed the court for an order to return the vehicles and or replace
them.
He further prayed the court to
compel the EFCC operatives to return the sum of $300,000 and N5.9million they
obtained from him.
Prosecuting counsel, Sylvanus
Tahir who had opposed the tendering of the 2nd document said, the documents
were never part of the proceedings.
Tahir, wondered why a document
addressed to the AGF will be tendered to a different agency of government and
added that they were gross violation of Section 102,103 and 104 of the Evidence
Act and therefore cannot be admissible.
Justice Garba adjourned to 13 and
14 December for ruling on the objections of prosecution counsel to the
admissibility of some of the documents and for cross examination by the
prosecution.
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This is a lie. A man of your caliber with high military experience,even a baby will not take this from you.Better pay back whatever you're owing and face your imprisonment term than fabricating lies.This will not take you out. Clemo
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