How Lamido, sons paid for supplies not made -Witness

AN Abuja Federal Court was told Friday,
how fake supply documents were
allegedly used to siphon money from
state coffers when Alhaji Sule Lamido
was governor of Jigawa State.
Lamido and his two sons, Aminu and
Mustapha as
well as his two companies are being
prosecuted before Justice Adeniyi
Ademola by the Economic and Fi- nancial
Crimes Commis- sion (EFCC) on a 27-
count charge of money laundering.
The former governor was alleged to have
abused his position as governor be-
tween 2007 and 2015 by awarding
contracts to com- panies where he had
inter-
est, using his two sons as fronts. The
Commission also accused him of
collecting kickbacks from contractors in
the state, with funds alleg- edly paid into
accounts that were managed by his
sons.
Giving evidence at the resumed hearing,
an investi- gator and deputy superinten-
dent with the EFCC, Kabiru Mohammed,
told the court that he went to Dantata
and Sawoe
Construction Com- pany to
ascertain if Gada Nigeria Construction
Com- pany, Speeds International
Company Limited and Ba- maina
Company Limited made supplies of
bitumen and cement and uncovered that
no such supplies were made.
“I was shown a register by Dantata and
Sawoe Con- struction Company from the
year 2007 to June 8, 2015, of all the
companies that made supplies to them. I
was also given a certified copy and none
of the aforementioned companies
supplied any- thing”, Mohammad stated.
Another witness, Joy Isen of Zenith Bank,
who was led in evidence by counsel to
EFCC, Chile Okoroma, had on
Wednesday, told the court that it was
part of her
duties to report suspicious transactions
to the Nigerian Financial Intelligence Unit
(NFIU). She presented the account
opening packages and statements of
account of Dantata and Sawoe Con-
struction Company, Interior Woodworks
Limited and Rauda Integrated Services
Limited, which were admit- ted in
evidence as exhibits by the court.