the 20th of July 2001, payable to the Union Homes Savings and Loans Limited. Both Detective Musa
Sunday and Sergeant Victor Dilang confirmed the fact that this Sum was for the benefit of Dr. Kingsley
Nkumah, the Permanent Secretary of the Ecological Funds Office. According to PW1, Detective Musa
Sunday, Dr. Nkumah had confessed that the Eighty Million Naira (N80, 000, 000) was his Bribe Money
given to him for facilitating the Ecological Fund and the Money was recovered from him. Dr. Nkumah
had been Chargedto a High Court in Lagos, whereupon the Grant of an Administrative Bail, he
resigned and left the Country.
According to PW2, Mr. Adewusi, a Staff from the Ecological Funds Office, he had learnt that Dr.
Kingsley Nkumah, was dismissed as a result of his involvement in the Central Bank of Nigeria’s
Cheque, wherein he benefitted the Sum of Eighty Million Naira (N80, 000, 000) and he had considered
it pitiful that this Sum belonging to Plateau State Government, a State of over Three Million People,
was given to One Individual.
Sergeant now ASP Victor Dilang, testified that he was instructed by the Defendant to meet with the
Permanent Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Special Duties in the Secretariat in Abuja, to pick up a
Message. On getting there, the Permanent Secretary refused to release the Cheque to him until he saw
Chief Joshua Chibi Dariye. Sergeant Victor Dilang put a call through to the Defendant, who was at the
Liaison Office and who further instructed him that the Permanent Secretary would attach him with
someone who would accompany him to the Liaison Office. The Permanent Secretary then gave him a
Cheque to sign, which he did as seen in Exhibit P14 at Page 27. Dr. Kingsley Nkumah then assigned
him with someone whose Name he could not recall, who followed him to the Liaison Office.
After discussions, the Defendant summoned him and gave him a Handwritten Letter he identified as
Exhibit P4 at Page 2, with an Instruction to collect a Bank Draft of Eighty Million Naira (N80, 000,
000). In company of this unnamed Person, they went to the AllStates Trust Bank where a Bank Draft
in the Sum of Eighty Million Naira (N80, 000, 000) was issued in favour of the Permanent Secretary
and he noted that the unnamed Person attached to him by Dr. Kingsley Nkumah signed and collected
the Draft of Eighty Million Naira (N80, 000,000).
The Defendant himself in his Extra-Judicial Statement Exhibit P13A had whilst itemizing how the
Sum of the Ecological Funds was disbursed, listed out the Payment to Union Homes as Item 5 in the
Sum of Eighty Million Naira (N80, 000, 000). He did not state who the Beneficiary was, but upon an
Investigative Enquiry to Union Homes, the Account Details under which this Payment was made, was
supplied by the Union Homes, who also furnished the Mandate Card of the Account Holder, tendered
into evidence as Exhibit P8. This Exhibit, which contained the Passport Photograph of Dr. Kingsley
Nkumah, was confirmed to be the Presidency, as his Employer and his Position to be the Permanent
Secretary of Ecological Funds. An Attachment to this Exhibit, is the Letter written by Dr. Nkumah, in
his own handwriting to the Branch Manager, Union Homes, Abuja dated the 31st day of January 2002,
had revealed a Financial Relationship between Dr. Nkumah and Union Homes.
There is also the AllStates Trust Bank Plc. Draft issued in favour of the Union Homes Savings and
Loans Limited dated the 20th of July 2001, as seen in Exhibit P7, which was reclaimed by the EFCC
from Union Homes in respect of the Account of Dr. Kingsley. PW1, Detective Musa Sunday had stated
that the Sum of Eighty Million Naira (N80, 000, 000) was recovered from Dr. Nkumah’s Union Homes
and Savings Account in Bank Draft, was registered and kept with the EFCC Exhibit Keeper.
Now, even though this Sum of Eighty Million Naira (N80, 000, 000) was not to the direct benefit/gain
of the Defendant, being a Public Officer with Dominion and Control over Plateau State Government’s
Funds, in breach of that Trust reposed on him by the People of his State, Disposed the Sum in this
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