together with Cheques and the Covering Letter. The Objection raised in this regard was overruled,
with the Documents admitted into evidence as Exhibit P7.
The Handwritten Instruction to Union Home Savings and Loans as well as the Mandate Card of Mr.
Nkumah was tendered without Objection as Exhibit P8.
Tendered as Exhibits 9 and 10, were Correspondences between the EFCC and the Corporate Affairs
Commission (CAC), regarding the Registration Status of Ebenezer Retnan Ventures as a Company/
Business Name. He also tendered into Evidence, Exhibit P11, the Itemized List of Lion Bank Cheques,
and Exhibit P12, the Certified True Copy of the Diamond Bank Plc.’s Letter dated the 24th of
November 2004, together with the Attached Statement of Account, which included the Request for a
Bank Draft and a Photocopy of a Cheque.
The Defendant volunteered his Statement at the Commission and made some Additional Statements,
after the Administrative Cautionary Words were read to him, whereupon he read and signed under
the Cautionary Words, making his Statement in his own handwriting. He signed the Pages of his
Statements and he, Detective Musa Sunday, countersigned as Witness to these Pages. These
Statements were made on the 12th of June 2007, the 13th of June 2007 and the 15thof June 2007 and
were all tendered into evidence with No Objection raised by the Defence as Exhibits P13A, P13B and
P13C respectively.
He finally stated that his investigations revealed that the Salary of a Sitting Governor as at 2007 was
the Sum of Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Naira (N250, 000) Monthly.
Under Cross-Examination by the Defence, he stated that the Team comprised of about Five Members
and he listed out their names. He explained the ranking of Ibrahim Magu, who was the Team Leader
and identified Mallam Nuhu Ribadu as the then Chairman of the EFCC.
He was not aware of any complaint from Plateau State Government over Loss of Funds. The Petition
emanated from the Crown Prosecution Service in the United Kingdom and is still pending before the
Investigative Unit of the Metropolitan Police, United Kingdom. He was not aware of any prosecution
initiated in the United Kingdom, reiterating the fact that the Defendant jumped the Administrative
Bail granted to him by the Metropolitan Police. He did not see the Bail Bond nor had any Personal
knowledge of the Bail, explaining that it was when Police Detective Constable, Peter Clark, came to
Nigeria, he got the information about the Bail Breach. He stated that Sergeant Peter Ingram was the
most Senior Officer that came to Nigeria for assistance and he met both of them, who along with
himself gave evidence at the Plateau State Impeachment Panel set up by the Chief Judge of Plateau
State.
He stated that the Crown Prosecution Service did not give him any Report about the outcome of their
investigations. He described the job of the EFCC Forensic Laboratory Service, which is staffed by EFCC
employees and he stated that a Formal Letter was written to the Forensic Laboratory with an
attached Copy of the Disputed Signature Writings.
When shown Exhibit P2, he stated that there was nothing special about the Handwriting Analysis.
The Document was sent to the Laboratory on the 24th of June 2007 and a Reminder Letter was also
sent on the 10th of December 2015. He agreed that as at the 10th of December 2015, Eight (8) Years
after the Initial Request for Forensic Analysis was sent, no reply was received, and added that the
Reply was only received on the 14th of December 2015, when Ibrahim Magu the Team Leader had
been elevated to the position of Chairman of the EFCC. He did not count this as strange that the
Author of the Forensic Report was an EFCC Employee answerable to the Chairman of the EFCC, and
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