Exhibit ICPC BGKB6 is the statement of the 2nd Defendant made on
21/3/2018.
All the foregoing exhibits were admitted through PW1 in person of one
Haruna, a Principal Investigation Officer attached to ICPC Headquarters,
Abuja.
The prosecution’s case is as presented by the evidence of PWS 1-4,
and is as follows:PW1 (After affirmation): “My name is Haruna Aminu. I am a Principal
Investigation Officer attached to ICPC Headquarters, Abuja”.
My schedule of duties includes:- investigation of petitions and
Complaints assigned to my team by the ICPC Chairman, giving
evidence in Court when the need arises especially in respect of
cases we have conducted investigation. I have been working with
ICPC for more than Ten (10) years now.
I know the Defendants, and I know them in the course of
investigation petition dated December, 2017 addressed to ICPC
Sokoto Zonal Office against the Defendants. We were assigned
to investigate the matter and in the course of investigation, we
recovered a report of a Committee of enquiry Constituted by
Sokoto SUBEB. The Committee was chaired by a Deputy
Director of Finance of the Board in person of one Aminu
Abdullahi.
In the course of our investigation, we have also found as a fact
that the 1st Defendant in person of Bashar Garba and the 2nd
Defendant in person of Kabiru Bello had illegally withheld to
their own benefit salaries of about 22 teachers in Sokoto South
Local Government Education Authority to the tune of N536,603
which they embezzled and same was recovered by our team and
the money was subsequently paid to SUBEB account and
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