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How Saraki instructed me to include monthly payment to his aide in Kwara budget – Witness

written by Taiwo Adediran November 12, 2020
How Saraki instructed me to include monthly payment to his aide in Kwara budget – Witness
A witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Isiaka Kareem in the suit seeking forfeiture of two Lagos property of a former Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, to the Federal Government yesterday gave of his role on how fund was transferred. 
 
Kareem who was a former Controller, Finance and Account, at the Kwara State Government House, testified before Justice Mohammed Liman
 of the  Federal High Court, Lagos.
In his testimony, the witness told the judge that monthly payments to one, Abdul Adama, an aide to Saraki, was provided for in the budget of Kwara State while the former governor was at the helm.
While being cross-examined by Saraki’s lawyer, Kehinde Ogunwumiju (SAN), the witness said as an accountant, he was familiar with the state budget and that he knew there were provisions for ‘security and contingency’, the headings under which the monthly payments were made to Adama.
He added that there was no time he made any complaint to anyone about the monthly payments he made to Adama.
The witness who said he was in the civil service for more than 30 years said while working in Government House, he neither had any personal relationship with Saraki nor knew anything about his property and the source of funding them.
When he was questioned by Ogunwumiju on the statement he made to the EFCC, the witness clarified that it was not every month that he paid N100 million to Adama.
On this issue, he said: “The allocation to Government House was not static. It was less than N100 million when we started and it kept increasing overtime. That was why I said it was not N100 million every month”.
The witness had earlier in his examination-in-chief by the EFCC’s lawyer, Emeka Omewa, told the court that Abdul Adama was introduced to him by Saraki as his personal assistant.
He said the former governor also instructed him to pay funds captured under ‘security and contingency’ to Adama.
He said: “Every month, when monthly allocations are disbursed, Adama will come to collect funds designated as ‘security and contingency’. In my office, we designated a form for everyone that came to collect fund and Adama signed the form every month for the funds he collected from my office. The funds were collected between 2003 when I resumed until the governor left in 2011”.
Further hearing in the matter has been adjourned to 25th November, 2020.
It would be recalled that Justice Liman had on June 8, 2020, ordered the anti-graft agency to bring more evidence in support of its suit against Saraki.
In a ruling on EFCC’s motion for final forfeiture of the property, the judge noted that while the anti-graft agency had made “a strong showing of strange transactions” through Saraki’s statement of bank account exhibited in court, it needed to call witnesses to prove that the funds deployed to building the houses were proceeds of fraud.

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