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.sunews