foreigners are Ukrainians and they all came in as experts. The DW1 further stated that he incurred expenditure for Societe D’ Equipments Internationaux Nigeria Limited with Himma Abubakar’s consent. The Defendant referred to a letter he wrote to Himma Abubakar on the 5th of March 2014 requesting his permission to go ahead and purchase travel tickets with his own money for the crew travelling for training in view of the fact that he had not yet been paid by the Office of the NSA. The letter was admitted in evidence and marked Exhibit S. The reply by Himma giving consent to incur such expenditure in Exhibit S was admitted in evidence as Exhibit T. The Defendant also tendered proof of the purchase of air tickets through a travel agency which was admitted as Exhibit U. Now to ground these offence as contained in the charge sheet, the prosecution must establish that the sums and vehicles in the charge was received “corruptly” as a “Reward” given to pervert the “procedure” or “corrupt the conduct”. The prosecution had to firmly establish that the purpose for which the money was given was to persuade or influence the Defendant into doing something dishonestly or as an incentive to spur the furtherance of his duty. 53