Stella
George, a witness, in the ongoing trial of Dr. Bello Haliru Mohammed,
former Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, today told Justice
A. R. Mohammed of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja
that, there was an inflow N300million (three hundred million naira) from
the Office of National Security Adviser, ONSA, to the account of BAM
Projects and Properties Limited, owned by the accused.
George,
a banker with Sterling Bank, while being led in evidence today by
counsel to EFCC, Rotimi Jacobs, SAN, stated that, on March 18, 2015 a
sum of N137, 200,000 ( one hundred and thirty seven million, two hundred
thousand naira) was transferred to Kumu Golo Limited and another
transfer of N178,800,000 (one hundred and seventy eight million, eight
hundred thousand naira) was made to North Polo Global Services same
day.
According
to her, the Certified True Copies (CTC) of account opening package,
mandate card and statement of account from January 2015 to date of BAM
Projects and Property Limited, as well as copies of instruments used for
inflow and outflow from the account were all made available to EFCC on
request.
Under
cross examination by the defence counsel, Solomon Umoh, SAN, George
said that, although she was obliged to know her customers especially the
account owner but, she did not know anything about the companies who
received the money under reference.
The
former PDP chief is being prosecuted alongside his son, Bello Abba
Mohammed, on a 4-count charge bordering on criminal breach of trust and
money laundering by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
It
would be recalled that, the first prosecution witness (PW1) Rouqayya
Ibrahim, an operative of the Commission, had in his evidence on Tuesday,
February 16, 2016 stated that a payment of N300m was made in two
tranches to the accused company’s account of BAM Projects and Properties
Limited from the funds meant for the procurement of arms through the
office of the former National Security Adviser, NSA.
The case has been adjourned to May 18, 2016 for continuation of trial.
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