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… EFCC declares uncooperative witness hostile

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday declared as “hostile” one of its prosecution witnesses, Abubakar Umar, lined up against a former Governor of Benue State, Mr. Gabriel Suswam before the Federal High Court in Abuja.

By declaring its witness hostile, the prosecution instead of leading the witness in evidence will cross-examine him because of the perceived uncooperative attitude of the said witness towards the prosecution.

The EFCC is prosecuting Suswam and the Commissioner of Finance in his administration, Mr. Omodachi Okolobia, on money laundering charges involving alleged diversion of a total sum of N3,111,008,018.51 said to have been stolen from proceeds of the sale of shares owned by the state government.

Lead prosecuting counsel, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), told the court that he took the decision to declare Umar a hostile witness given the contradiction between the witness’ written statement and his testimony before the court earlier on May 5, 2016.

The prosecution had, during the proceedings of May 5, 2016, abruptly cut short Umar’s testimony due to the perceived contradiction in his oral evidence.

Umar, the fourth prosecution witness in the case and owner of a bureau de change firm, Fanffash Resources, had in his testimony narrated how Suswam, while serving as Benue State Governor, allegedly instructed a cumulative transfer of N3.1bn into his company’s account between August and October 2014.

He said Suswam had instructed...http://oak.tv/n3-1bn-fraud-big-relief-ex-benue-governor-efcc-witness-fumbles-court/