the Defendant knew him not to be liar, and he knew the consequence of lying and so had no reason to lie. Alhaji Abubakar Tutare, in Exhibit Z12, inhis Witness Statement to the EFCC dated 6th March 2006, stated thus: “In regard to the cash deposit of One Hundred and Sixty-Five Million Naira made to Salman Global by my Staff A. N. Umar. I wish to state that the money was given to him by me and I (was) had collected the money from my Governor. H. E. Rev. J.T. Nyame. I don’t know what the Money was main for but he sent me to deposit the money in that Account. The Money was not removed from Government Treasury. After some conversation, I came to remember what the Governor told when he was giving me the Money, that he owes Lawyers and some Party Members in Abuja and some Moneyhe want Alhaji to pay them back but he did not mention the names of those owing him”(Sic) Further, in Exhibit Z13, another Extra-Judicial Statement to the EFCC dated the 6th of March 2006, made Alhaji Abubakar Tutare, he stated thus: “Further to the Statement I made this morning, I wish to state that the N165, 000, 000 paid to Alhaji Ibrahim Abubakar was main for the Purchase of his house in Abuja by the Governor. When I came back from Amarca the Gov told me that he has paid Alhaji Ibrahim Abubakar his N165, 000, 000. The Gov informed me of the payment because of the pressure Alh was putting on me.”(Sic). Yet again, the name of Alhaji Ibrahim Abubakar featured and yet again, another basis of a relationship with the Defendant surfaced. PW9, Ibrahim Galadima, the Assistant Superintendent of Police corroborated the above by stating that their investigation revealed that Stationeries and other Office Equipment were not purchased in 2004. In the following Year 2005, another request for the same purpose was made and this time around, for the Sum of Two Hundred Million Naira (N200, 000, 130