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Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by LocalChamp: 3:54pm On Feb 10, 2016
BY SAHARA REPORTERS, NEW YORK FEB 09, 2016
SaharaReporters has obtained phone records belonging to Ricky Tarfa, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, which shows consistent phone calls to one Justice Mohammed Yunusa of the Federal High Court in Lagos. These phone records were obtained by SaharaReporters just as a legal showdown between Mr. Tarfa and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is underway following his arrest by EFCC agents.

The phone records show a series of no less than nine calls between Mr. Yunusa and Mr. Tarfa’s GSM numbers, 08095666256 and 08034600000 respectively. Those numbers, when searched in the True Caller app, clearly show they belong to individuals matching their names.

SaharaReporters previously reported that Mr. Tarfa was arrested by the EFCC for obstruction of justice when he shielded anti-corruption police from arresting his client Granhoue Sourou Nazaire.

Mr. Nazaire had been Mr. Tarfa’s client since around May 2015 when he instituted a legal suit against Mrs. Rachidatou Abdou over ownership and control of a company of which they were both the directors.

However, a letter to the Commissioner of Police authored by Mrs. Abdou on September 7th, 2015 stated that she believed that Mr. Tarfa was colluding with the judge overseeing that case, Justice Mohammed Yunusa.

The letter from Mrs. Abdou states “before and after the filing of the suit the Applicant’s lawyer, Mr. Ricky Tarfa SAN, and the judge, the Honorable Justice Yunusa were communicating with each other on the phone in order to pervert the course of justice.”

The phone records obtained by SaharaReporters shows consistent communication between Mr. Tarfa and Judge Yunusa’s Blackberry phone between May 11th, 2015 and August 3rd, 2015.

A review of the phone records available to our correspondent shows that Mr. Tarfa, and Yunusa spoke on three separate instances on May 11th, 2015, or four days before lawsuits were instituted against Mrs. Abdou.

There was also one phone conversation between Mr. Tarfa and Justice Yunusa three days before the May 15th filing of the lawsuit. On May 16th a day after the May 15th filing, there were three separate phone transactions between the two men.

According to the phone records, Mr. Tarfa and Justice Yunusa spoke at least once on June 25th, 2015 more than one month after legal charges were officially instituted on behalf of Tarfa’s client Mr. Nazaire. This phone transaction was also four days before Mr. Tarfa “made an oral application for an injunction to restrain the EFCC from inviting” his clients to be questioned about fraud allegations against him from Mrs. Abdou.

According to legal statements and media reports oral arguments on the Nazaire-Abdou case began on July 16th of that same year. Despite this, Mr. Tarfa and Justice Yunusa had a phone conversation on August 3rd, 2015 in violation of conduct of legal professionals.

The judge then ruled for Mr. Tarfa’s client on August 18th, following no less than nine separate phone transactions between the two men.

Mrs. Abdou also submitted a complaint to the National Judicial Council (NJC) identifying the corrupt and fraudulent dealing between Mr. Tarfa and Mr. Yunusa on November 11th, 2015. In the complaint, Mrs. Abdou detailed the cases assigned to Mr. Yunusa in the Federal Court and that there were records of phone calls and SMS messages between him and Mr. Tarfa.

In response to her complaint, the Chief Justice of Nigeria Mahmud Mohammed sent a memo to Mr. Yunusa for his misconduct. The memo was sent through the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court of Nigeria, demanding an explanation to Mrs. Abdou’s allegations against him. Mr. Yunusa was given two weeks to respond to the allegations.

SaharaReporters has not ascertained what Mr. Yunusa’s response to the Chief Justice was, however, our correspondent has since learned that Mr. Yunusa was moved from the High Court in Lagos to the Federal High Court in Yobe State.

Meanwhile, Tarfa has been slammed with two counts of obstruction of justice by the EFCC at a Lagos High Court.

http://saharareporters.com/2016/02/09/phone-records-shows-how-lawyer-ricky-tarfa-and-justice-mohammed-yunusa-repeatedly-spoke

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Re: Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by jinha(m): 3:54pm On Feb 10, 2016
now the NBA should keep quiet...


so i actually make FTC, will like to thank olamipapa and shadow for the inspiration, nothing else...

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Re: Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by LocalChamp: 3:55pm On Feb 10, 2016
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Re: Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by Elosky20: 3:56pm On Feb 10, 2016
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Re: Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by boman2014: 3:58pm On Feb 10, 2016
na wha oooooo

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Re: Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by shaddoww: 4:04pm On Feb 10, 2016
Dis guys though, anyway double twale

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Re: Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by knightsTempler: 4:05pm On Feb 10, 2016
And the drama continues....
Re: Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by LocalChamp: 4:07pm On Feb 10, 2016
LocalChamp:
BY SAHARA REPORTERS, NEW YORK FEB 09, 2016
SaharaReporters has obtained phone records belonging to Ricky Tarfa, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, which shows consistent phone calls to one Justice Mohammed Yunusa of the Federal High Court in Lagos. These phone records were obtained by SaharaReporters just as a legal showdown between Mr. Tarfa and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is underway following his arrest by EFCC agents.

The phone records show a series of no less than nine calls between Mr. Yunusa and Mr. Tarfa’s GSM numbers, 08095666256 and 08034600000 respectively. Those numbers, when searched in the True Caller app, clearly show they belong to individuals matching their names.

SaharaReporters previously reported that Mr. Tarfa was arrested by the EFCC for obstruction of justice when he shielded anti-corruption police from arresting his client Granhoue Sourou Nazaire.

Mr. Nazaire had been Mr. Tarfa’s client since around May 2015 when he instituted a legal suit against Mrs. Rachidatou Abdou over ownership and control of a company of which they were both the directors.

However, a letter to the Commissioner of Police authored by Mrs. Abdou on September 7th, 2015 stated that she believed that Mr. Tarfa was colluding with the judge overseeing that case, Justice Mohammed Yunusa.

The letter from Mrs. Abdou states “before and after the filing of the suit the Applicant’s lawyer, Mr. Ricky Tarfa SAN, and the judge, the Honorable Justice Yunusa were communicating with each other on the phone in order to pervert the course of justice.”

The phone records obtained by SaharaReporters shows consistent communication between Mr. Tarfa and Judge Yunusa’s Blackberry phone between May 11th, 2015 and August 3rd, 2015.

A review of the phone records available to our correspondent shows that Mr. Tarfa, and Yunusa spoke on three separate instances on May 11th, 2015, or four days before lawsuits were instituted against Mrs. Abdou.

There was also one phone conversation between Mr. Tarfa and Justice Yunusa three days before the May 15th filing of the lawsuit. On May 16th a day after the May 15th filing, there were three separate phone transactions between the two men.

According to the phone records, Mr. Tarfa and Justice Yunusa spoke at least once on June 25th, 2015 more than one month after legal charges were officially instituted on behalf of Tarfa’s client Mr. Nazaire. This phone transaction was also four days before Mr. Tarfa “made an oral application for an injunction to restrain the EFCC from inviting” his clients to be questioned about fraud allegations against him from Mrs. Abdou.

According to legal statements and media reports oral arguments on the Nazaire-Abdou case began on July 16th of that same year. Despite this, Mr. Tarfa and Justice Yunusa had a phone conversation on August 3rd, 2015 in violation of conduct of legal professionals.

The judge then ruled for Mr. Tarfa’s client on August 18th, following no less than nine separate phone transactions between the two men.

Mrs. Abdou also submitted a complaint to the National Judicial Council (NJC) identifying the corrupt and fraudulent dealing between Mr. Tarfa and Mr. Yunusa on November 11th, 2015. In the complaint, Mrs. Abdou detailed the cases assigned to Mr. Yunusa in the Federal Court and that there were records of phone calls and SMS messages between him and Mr. Tarfa.

In response to her complaint, the Chief Justice of Nigeria Mahmud Mohammed sent a memo to Mr. Yunusa for his misconduct. The memo was sent through the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court of Nigeria, demanding an explanation to Mrs. Abdou’s allegations against him. Mr. Yunusa was given two weeks to respond to the allegations.

SaharaReporters has not ascertained what Mr. Yunusa’s response to the Chief Justice was, however, our correspondent has since learned that Mr. Yunusa was moved from the High Court in Lagos to the Federal High Court in Yobe State.

Meanwhile, Tarfa has been slammed with two counts of obstruction of justice by the EFCC at a Lagos High Court.

http://saharareporters.com/2016/02/09/phone-records-shows-how-lawyer-ricky-tarfa-and-justice-mohammed-yunusa-repeatedly-spoke

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Re: Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by ozoigbondu: 4:07pm On Feb 10, 2016
Time to uninstall that true caller App.That thing doesn't have privacy

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Re: Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by 9jatriot(m): 4:07pm On Feb 10, 2016
Just wen u want to give up on NIgeria then remember who your president is, you become hopeful again and say thank God for coming to our rescue, we really would have gone to the brinks according to cramjones prediction if the status quo was allowed to continue unabated.

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Re: Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by Nobody: 4:08pm On Feb 10, 2016
Amazing action

But where is lalasticlala sef undecided

Wike and Supreme Court Judges is now loading grin

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Re: Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by dgr8truth(m): 4:12pm On Feb 10, 2016
Re: Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by Udopasa: 4:15pm On Feb 10, 2016
Saharareporters is just on a class of its own. I suggest the EFCC and DSS enlist them on code for under cover operations. Udo diri unu

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Re: Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by LegalAnalyst(m): 4:15pm On Feb 10, 2016
Hmmm


Don't know what to say. However, we will await more revelations to avoid passing judgment without listening to the second party.

*NaijaLegalAnalyst*

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Re: Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by Yyeske(m): 4:17pm On Feb 10, 2016
Damn it! Where are those shameless SANs that accompanied Ricky the other day, you all must #receivesense

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Re: Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by Montaque(m): 4:19pm On Feb 10, 2016
Investigative journalism.
Our learned silks and NBA, instead of standing with those that genuinely needed justice, wrongly stood by a colleague who has desecrated the hallowed temple of justice. This is hardly ever professional.

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Re: Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by doctokwus: 4:25pm On Feb 10, 2016
Jungle has matured.
The judiciary is in for a massive earthquake because something tells me that the audio or video evidence of the communication btw Wike and justices of the Supreme Court is coming to a screen near us soon.

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Re: Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by GanivusFani: 4:26pm On Feb 10, 2016
Investigative journalism at its peak

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Re: Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by phranseeqz(m): 4:27pm On Feb 10, 2016
Sahara reporters, premium times etc, Nigeria's combination of FBI & CIA. Even DSS na learner. grin grin

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Re: Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by Boeing777pilot: 4:27pm On Feb 10, 2016
Chai!!

Sahara reporters toh badt gan grin


These guys are good.

They are neither APC or PDP

But Pro Nigeria.

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Re: Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by bright007(f): 4:27pm On Feb 10, 2016
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Re: Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by Okijajuju1(m): 4:27pm On Feb 10, 2016
Chai!

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Re: Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by doctokwus: 4:28pm On Feb 10, 2016
Jungle has matured.
The judiciary is in for a massive earthquake because something tells me that the audio or video evidence of the communication btw Wike and justices of the Supreme Court is coming to a screen near us soon.

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Re: Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by Dannyset(m): 4:28pm On Feb 10, 2016
When Buhari said these people are his problem, some senseless being won't shut their latrine called mouth.

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Re: Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by Millz404(m): 4:29pm On Feb 10, 2016
If Sahara reporters accuse u... U beta keep calm.... Or they come out and disgrace ur generation.... Its deir hobby

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Re: Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by brunofarad(m): 4:29pm On Feb 10, 2016
Sahara reporters !


Investigative Journalism at its best and keeping nigerian politicians in check.
Am always impressed with their deliveries.


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Re: Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by truthspeaks: 4:29pm On Feb 10, 2016
Sahara Reporters, una too much. See investigative journalism. BT dis true caller tin de open yansh oo. Tnk God I dnt hv it installed

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Re: Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by Pavore9: 4:30pm On Feb 10, 2016
Ghen ghen!

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Re: Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by Futbolpredikts: 4:30pm On Feb 10, 2016
.... But how do sahara reporters get their info?
Why can't the FG have such Intel..

I think Goodluck Jonathan should be blamed for this

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Re: Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by ki02020(m): 4:30pm On Feb 10, 2016
SAHARA REPORTER the WHISLE BLOWER of NIGERIA...nice one

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Re: Records Of Calls Between Tarfa And Yunusa Obtained By Sahara Reporters by obailala(m): 4:31pm On Feb 10, 2016
Choiii... Privacy has gone to the dogs. shocked shocked shocked

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