DW4, Engineer Danjuma Walman working with the Plateau State Government, Ministry of Works and Transport testified that the Direct Labour Agency was a Parastatal, under the Ministry of Works and Housing. This Nomenclature has now been changed to Plateau State Road Maintenance Agency. His entire testimony is contained in the 2nd Set of Circumstances relating to Plateau State/AccountantGeneral’s Accounts and will constitute an unnecessary repetition if stated here. DW5, Mr. Stephen Igmala, was a Civil Servant, working with the Plateau State Road Maintenance Agency, formerly known as the Direct Labour Agency in May 2000, and he was the Acting General Manager. His entire testimony is contained in the 2nd Set of Circumstances relating to Plateau State/Accountant-General’s Accounts and will constitute an unnecessary repetition if stated here. DW6, Chief Mai Chibi Vwalji, the then Plateau State Deputy Chairman of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and now an All Progressive Congress (APC) testified under Oath that he is familiar with the PDP as a Party. The Chairman of the Plateau State PDP, Alhaji Habu Shingai had been bedridden for the past Twenty Years. The Party gets Funds through Fund-Raising Activities and Payments of Membership Dues from its Elected Members. He was shown Exhibit P13A at Page 10, one of the Defendant’s Statements, which had itemized the Distribution of Money and he affirmed that PDP Plateau State, collected the Sum of Sixty Six Million Naira (N66, 000, 000) for 274 Wards. The Chairman of the State Party had earlier attended the National Executive Committee Meeting of the PDP National Level at the Abuja National Secretariat in 2001, where the National Chairman had informed them that PDP Governors would give their State PDP Chapters some Money towards the Party. The Governor of the State, being a Member of his Party’s State Exco, went to the Party’s Secretariat in Plateau State to give them the Sum of Sixty Six Million Naira (N66, 000, 000) for Distribution to the Wards through the Local Government Chairmen. He did not know the Source of the Money distributed but he knew the Money was distributed to each of the Seventeen (17) Local Governments for the Three Hundred (300) State Wards. Under Cross-Examination by the Prosecution, he joined the APC a Year ago, after the Elections and confirmed that the Defendant had decamped to the APC, though he had been elected to the Senate on the Platform of the PDP and he had worked as his Political Supporter to get him elected. He described the hierarchy and positions of Plateau State PDP’s Mechanism, Listing the Positions of the Members, and describing their Functions. The Financial Secretary collects Monies from Fundraisers and gives it to the Treasurer and both would keep the Records. He re-affirmed his Earlier Statement, that the Chairman of the State PDP had been seriously sick for the past Twenty Years, and was not able to even stand up and could not perform his functions as a Politician. He also could not hold Party Meetings during this Period and he had been Deputizing for him. When challenged with the Question of the Incapacitation of the Chairman and the unlikely event of his attendance at the National Meeting, he denied lying, stating that the Chairman had now and then been attending Meetings. Chief Mai Chibi Vwalji, a Grade Two Teacher before joining Politics Forty Years ago hates corruption and detests Government Officials stealing Government Money. However, as a Politician he stated that if a Member donates Money to the Political Party as his Contribution, he would not know where the Money came from and would accept it very like an Offering made in Church. He did not know which 84

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