He agreed with the Defence Counsel that if N100, 000, 000 was given to PDP South-West, another N100, 000, 000 given to Marine Float Ltd and N80, 000, 000 given to the Permanent Secretary, the total would be N280, 000, 000 that was the Amount deducted from the Ecological Funds released to Plateau State. He then explained that the Disbursements as set out by the Defendant in his ExtraJudicial Statement were each investigated by different Team Members, which included investigations into the N100, 000, 000 given to Marine Float Ltd owned by the Former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the N80, 000, 000 given to Union Homes, and the fact that he gave Senator Nasiru Mantu, the Former Deputy Senate-President of Nigeria, the Sum of Ten Million Naira (N10, 000, 000.00), the fact that the PDP Plateau State received the Sums of N6Million or N66Million for 274 Units. G.S. Pwul SAN, the then Counsel to the Defence, questioned whether the Sum of N10, 000, 000 given to Senator Nasiru Mantu, was another Condition for the release of the Ecological Funds. If so, it was now Condition Number 4. Further, the N66Million meant for distribution to 274 Wards of the PDP, which is less than N200, 000 per Ward, was Condition Number 6 and the PW1, responded that he did not know that there were Conditions for the release of the Ecological Funds. He was referred to the First Paragraph of Page 11 of Exhibit P13, where the Defendant had stated that the N100, 000, 000 allocated to the PDP South-West was Personally collected by Mr. Yomi Edu, the then Minister of Special Duties and the remaining N100, 000, 000 assigned to Marine Float was given to the Vice-President of Nigeria, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. Of all the names featured in the evidence, Vice-President Atiku Abubakar, Dr. Kingsley Nkumah, Senator Nasiru Mantu, Mr. Yomi Edu and Chief Joshua Dariye, it was only the Defendant who was charged to Court in respect of the Sums alleged in the Charge but stated that investigations were still going on since 2007. The Defence Silk, posed several suppositions to this Witness such as, the likely Political Vendetta by President Obasanjo for the Defendant’s failure to support his Third-Term Bid, the fact of Bias by the EFCC in supplying Documents to the Plateau State House of Assembly Special Committee, on moves to impeach the Defendant, and also the fact that only Fifteen (15) Members of the House of Assembly supporting the Defendant were arrested during the political upheaval among Members of the Plateau State House of Assembly. This Witness stated that he was not aware of all the above suppositions, stating that they were not correct. He only knew that a State of Emergency was imposed in Plateau State because of the Crisis and he and Ibrahim Lamorde, the then Director of Operations of the EFCC, testified before the Panel on Impeachment. He was also not aware that the basis of the Defendant’s Impeachment was on the Allegations of the Funds for Ecological Purposes. When questioned about the Central Bank of Nigeria Cheque Exhibit P6, he replied that the Cheque was cleared into the AllStates Trust Bank Plc.’s Call Account and disbursed according the Defendant’s handwritten and typed instructions, when acting in his Official Capacity. As regards Exhibit P7 dated 4th of February 2005, PW1 responded that this Document, did not specifically show where the Defendant benefitted Personally, but they observed from the Handwritten Note, that the Sum of N176, 862, 900 was paid directly into the Defendant’s Company, Ebenezer Retnan Ventures’ Account and so, the Payment was Bank to Bank. Further, PW1 stated that Exhibits P13A, P13B and P13C, were Voluntary Statements made without duress and under freewill conditions and therefore he did not consider them as Confessional, otherwise the Defendant would have been taken them before a Superior Officer for Endorsement, adding that from his experience, Confessional Statements were voluntary. 74

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