Uchenna Agagara, a witness in the ongoing trial
of former governor of Kogi state, Prince Abubakar Audu ,on Friday, March 6th,
2015 told Justice Adegbola O. Adeniyi of the Federal Capital Territory High
Court sitting in Abuja, that several millions of naira totalling
about N926m were lodged into Diamond bank account of Bulkom Nigeria Ltd,
between May 29th, 2001 and July 23rd , 2003 when Audu held sway as the governor
of the State.
The prosecuting counsel tendered a statement of account from Diamond Bank
showing the transactions of the lodgements which was admitted in evidence by
the court and marked exhibit P1 54a-b.
Agagara, a relationship
officer with Diamond Bank Plc, who
is also the account officer of Bulkom Nig Ltd identified the exhibit and
further told the court that he printed the said statement from the banks’
system when he was invited by the EFCC.
It is alleged that the
ex-Kogi state governor was stealing money from the First bank account of
Directorate of Rural Development of Kogi State and was lodging it into the
Diamond bank Plc account of Bulkom Nigeria Ltd, a company that handled most of
his building projects during his tenure.
The case has been
adjourned to March 31st and April 1st & 2nd, 2015 for continuation of hearing.
Prince
Audu is being prosecuted alongside a former Director General of the Directorate
of Rural Development in his administration, Alfa Ibn Mustapha, for offences
bordering on criminal breach of trust and misappropriation of public funds to
the tune of N10,965,837,040 (ten billion, nine hundred and sixty five million,
eight hundred and thirty seven thousand and Forty Naira).
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