Prosecution witness in the trial of former Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Badeh, gave details on Tuesday in court on how he failed in his attempt to conceal the ownership of a shopping mall worth N1.8billion he built for the ex-defence chief in Abuja.
The witness, Mustapha Yerima, a building contractor and MD of a property firm, Right Builders Tech Ltd., told a Federal High Court in Abuja that Badeh and some others asked him to claim ownership of the property to conceal its true ownership from investigators. Yerima, who testified as the fourth prosecution witness in the trial of Badeh and a firm, Iyalikam Nig. Ltd., said he failed in his effort to conceal the ownership of the property when operatives of the EFCC confronted him with actual documents relating to the true ownership of the property.
Badeh is being tried on a 10-count charge with Iyalikam for money laundering and diversion of public funds estimated at about N3.97billion.
Led in evidence by prosecution lawyer, Rotimi Jacobs, Mr Yerima who opened his testimony on Monday got to conclude his evidence-in-chief on Tuesday. When asked to cross-examine the witness, defence lawyers, Akin Olujinmi (SAN) and Samuel Ologunorisa (SAN) asked for time to enable them study his statements.
Trial judge Justice Okon Abang adjourned to June 14 for Yerima’s cross-examination. Revelations.
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