to Jalingo to Approve the Memo in Exhibit O2, whereupon, the whole
Administrative Exercise of Processing the Payment would have been
conducted. There is also the fact that Mr. Nev, testified that he obtained
Cheques of these various Sums of Monies from the Commissioner of Finance
Taraba State and this presumes that a ‘Third Party’ HAD to be involved in the
Financial Process.
The Third Party had to be the Bank/s and their Operational Processes, for
which neither the Defendant nor Taraba State Government had any control
over. What then are the odds that in a Few Hours and for the Third Time on
the 11th of April 2007, the Money was received in sufficient time to ensure
the execution of the Projects listed in that Memo. The Memo had to be
Written and Approved, the Commissioner of Finance had to issue a Cheque
to the Government House, which Cheque would then have to be paid into the
Government House Account, and cleared, and then withdrawn, in Cash, and
then disbursed.
Because it was important to get the “complete attention” of the Indigenes, it
is reasonable to expect that he would seek to get their immediate attention,
at least before the President arrived on the 12th April 2007, lest he risked
sharing the Money to the Indigenes on the day of the Visit. So, at some point
in the day, certainly not during the Morning Hours, a flight had to be made
back to the Site.
On the question of Honorarium there must be Signatures on Record,as every
Government Expenditure even Allowance or Honorarium must be signed for,
or ticked against a General Record from the State. It cannot be acknowledged
on an ordinary Exercise Book but a recognisable Government
Acknowledgment Register. The responsibility to produce this Register had to
be the person who says Honorarium was given out. That Person is Reverend
Jolly Nyame. There are however no Records of Government evidencing the
fact that any Honorarium was given.
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