DW4, Engineer Danjuma Walman working with the Plateau State Government, Ministry of Works and
Transport testified that the Direct Labour Agency was a Parastatal, under the Ministry of Works and
Housing. This Nomenclature has now been changed to Plateau State Road Maintenance Agency. His
entire testimony is contained in the 2nd Set of Circumstances relating to Plateau State/AccountantGeneral’s Accounts and will constitute an unnecessary repetition if stated here.
DW5, Mr. Stephen Igmala, was a Civil Servant, working with the Plateau State Road Maintenance
Agency, formerly known as the Direct Labour Agency in May 2000, and he was the Acting General
Manager. His entire testimony is contained in the 2nd Set of Circumstances relating to Plateau
State/Accountant-General’s Accounts and will constitute an unnecessary repetition if stated here.
DW6, Chief Mai Chibi Vwalji, the then Plateau State Deputy Chairman of the People’s Democratic
Party (PDP) and now an All Progressive Congress (APC) testified under Oath that he is familiar with
the PDP as a Party. The Chairman of the Plateau State PDP, Alhaji Habu Shingai had been bedridden
for the past Twenty Years.
The Party gets Funds through Fund-Raising Activities and Payments of Membership Dues from its
Elected Members. He was shown Exhibit P13A at Page 10, one of the Defendant’s Statements, which
had itemized the Distribution of Money and he affirmed that PDP Plateau State, collected the Sum of
Sixty Six Million Naira (N66, 000, 000) for 274 Wards. The Chairman of the State Party had earlier
attended the National Executive Committee Meeting of the PDP National Level at the Abuja National
Secretariat in 2001, where the National Chairman had informed them that PDP Governors would give
their State PDP Chapters some Money towards the Party.
The Governor of the State, being a Member of his Party’s State Exco, went to the Party’s Secretariat in
Plateau State to give them the Sum of Sixty Six Million Naira (N66, 000, 000) for Distribution to the
Wards through the Local Government Chairmen. He did not know the Source of the Money distributed
but he knew the Money was distributed to each of the Seventeen (17) Local Governments for the
Three Hundred (300) State Wards.
Under Cross-Examination by the Prosecution, he joined the APC a Year ago, after the Elections and
confirmed that the Defendant had decamped to the APC, though he had been elected to the Senate on
the Platform of the PDP and he had worked as his Political Supporter to get him elected. He described
the hierarchy and positions of Plateau State PDP’s Mechanism, Listing the Positions of the Members,
and describing their Functions. The Financial Secretary collects Monies from Fundraisers and gives it
to the Treasurer and both would keep the Records.
He re-affirmed his Earlier Statement, that the Chairman of the State PDP had been seriously sick for
the past Twenty Years, and was not able to even stand up and could not perform his functions as a
Politician. He also could not hold Party Meetings during this Period and he had been Deputizing for
him.
When challenged with the Question of the Incapacitation of the Chairman and the unlikely event of his
attendance at the National Meeting, he denied lying, stating that the Chairman had now and then been
attending Meetings.
Chief Mai Chibi Vwalji, a Grade Two Teacher before joining Politics Forty Years ago hates corruption
and detests Government Officials stealing Government Money. However, as a Politician he stated that
if a Member donates Money to the Political Party as his Contribution, he would not know where the
Money came from and would accept it very like an Offering made in Church. He did not know which
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