the Account. The Defendant had in his Statement, fully explained how the balance of N16, 862, 900
was disbursed to individuals.
PW1, Detective Musa Sunday, stated that the Ecological Fund is a Special Intervention Fund
administered directly by the Office of the President to solve Ecological Problems. The Members and
the Activities of the Fund Administrators are overseen with the Meetings chaired by the VicePresident, who at that time was Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. He did not know the Conditions attached to
the Disbursements of the Ecological Funds, but could tell that it was not only for States, as there were
only Three (3) States out of Twenty-Seven (27) Beneficiary Entities.
Through his investigation, he confirmed that Pinnacle Communications Ltd was indeed a Contractor
of Plateau State Government but did not go on to investigate, as he was not part of the EFCC Team,
who focused on the Sum paid to Pinnacle Communications Ltd. Further, he stated that the Sum of
N550, 000, 000 was paid to the Plateau State Government.
Further, the Sum of N80Million from Dr. Kingsley Nkumah’s Union Home Savings and Loans Account
was recovered in Bank Draft, Registered and kept with the EFCC Exhibit Keeper.
The Defendant did not tell him that there were Conditions attached to him receiving the Money but in
his Statement, he made it clear that the One Hundred Million Naira (N100, 000, 000) paid to the PDP
South-West, was different from the One Hundred Million Naira (N100, 000, 000) he gave to Marine
Float Ltd, which belonged to the then Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar.
He was asked whether the Conditions attached to the Defendant being granted the Ecological Funds
were that Eighty Million Naira (N80, 000, 000) would go to the Permanent Secretary and One
Hundred Million Naira (N100, 000, 000) to the Chairman, the Vice-President of Nigeria. He was also
asked, whether Obasanjo as President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria returned the Sum of One
Hundred Million Naira (N100, 000, 000) in 2004 allocated to the PDP South-West and he replied that
he did not participate in all these aspects.
He conceded that if One Hundred Million Naira (N100, 000, 000) was given to PDP South-West, with
another One Hundred Million Naira (N100, 000, 000) given to Marine Float Ltd and Eighty Million
Naira (N80, 000, 000) given to the Permanent Secretary, the Total Amount deducted from the
Ecological Funds released to Plateau State, would be the Sum of Two Hundred and Eighty Million
Naira (N280, 000, 000).
PW1 further explained that Each Disbursement, as set out by the Defendant in his Statement, were
investigated by different Team Members, and included investigations into the One Hundred Million
Naira (N100, 000, 000) given to Marine Float Ltd, the Eighty Million Naira (N80, 000, 000) paid into
Union Homes, the fact that the Defendant gave Senator Mantu, the Former Deputy Senate-President of
Nigeria, the Sum of Ten Million Naira (N10, 000, 000.00), as well as the Sum of N66Million meant for
274 Units/Wards of PDP in Plateau State.
He was referred to the First Paragraph of Page 11 of Exhibit P13, where the Defendant had
explained how and who benefitted from the Disbursement and questioned as to why it was ONLY the
Defendant charged to Court in respect of the Sums alleged in the Charge, and he responded that
investigations were still going on since 2007, in respect of the One Hundred Million Naira (N100, 000,
000) allocated to the PDP South-West, which was Personally collected by Mr. Yomi Edu, the then
Minister of Special Duties, the remaining One Hundred Million Naira (N100, 000, 000) that was
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