Five Million (N165, 000, 000), and the Deputy Speaker, Honourable Marafa
Bashiru Abbah, was to take benefit of Fifteen Million Naira (N15, 000, 000).
Twenty Million Naira (N20, 000, 000) was for the Commissioner of Finance,
out of which only Sixteen Million Naira (N16, 000, 000) from the Cheque of
Two Hundred Million Naira Only (N200, 000, 000) was used to
PurchaseStationeries while Four Million Naira (N4, 000, 000) was given to
Alhaji Abubakar Tutare, through his Aide, a fact he denied.
A holistic overview of the evidence rendered by these Participant Witnesses
is the fact that, the Communications, whether as an Instruction or Directive,
were ALL VERBAL. What crystallized as MATERIAL EVIDENCE that can be
seen with the eyes started off with the Zenith Bank Limited Cheque for the
Sum of Two Hundred Million Naira (N200, 000, 000), admitted into evidence
as Exhibit S1.
From a careful look at this Exhibit S1, the Court can see that it is a Ministry
of Finance Cheque with an Order to Pay, “PERM. SEC (MOF) (A.N. UMAR)”.It
is dated the 14th of February 2005 and was signed by Mrs. Asabe Maiangwa,
the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Finance and Mr. Abdulkadir
Nagari Umar, the Assistant Chief Accountant of the Ministry.
On the Reverse Side of this Cheque is handwritten, the words “DP A/C:
6013407822- 165.0M CASH.” The Signatures of Mrs. Asabe Maiangwa and
that of Mr. Abdulkadir Nagari Umar were directly below it and underneath
their Signatures were Other Figures in Denominations totalling Thirty Five
Million Naira (N35, 000, 000). Zenith Bank Stamped “CASH COUNTED AND
COLLECTED BY ME”, which Mr. Abdulkadir Nagari signed, initialled his
Name and dated, under his name.
Further, down the line is Exhibit S2, a Zenith Bank Plc., Deposit Slip dated
the 14th of February 2005, and the details it captured were as follows,
namely: -
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