As the trial of the chairman of the defunct pension reform task team continues on Friday before the federal high court in Abuja, a witness, Ngozika Ihuoma maintained that the task team under Abdulrasheed Maina made huge recoveries amounting to N1.63t in assets.
Ihuoma, who took part in the biometric capture for pensioners in 2010, said Maina as chairman, also recovered #282b within the first 18 months.
The witness while being cross examined by the prosecution counsel Mohammed Abubakar, said he stands by his earlier testimonies including that relating to the monies warehoused at the Central Bank of Nigeria but did not tender documents to back his claims.
During further cross-examination by the prosecutor, the witness also admitted that he has not tendered documents to prove that #74b of the recovered funds was used for the 2012 national budget.
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Justice Okon Abang had earlier ruled against the admissibility of a document showing the allowances of members of staff of the tax team as well as those of national assembly members on oversight which the defendant’s counsel, Abiola Olawole, sought to tender.
The prosecutor said the document, though a public one, was not a certified true copy, making it inadmissible in evidence.
The case has been adjourned till 9th, of March.
(Editor :Abaje Usekwe)
