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16/07/2024

How I Received Over N1bn from Ali Bello for Renovation Of his Houses-Witness

The trial of Ali Bello and Dauda Sulaiman before Justice J. K. Omotosho of the Federal High Court, Abuja, continued on Monday, July 15, 2024, with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, presenting its seventh Prosecution Witness, PW7.

The EFCC is prosecuting Ali Bello and Dauda Sulaiman on a 10-count charge bordering on money laundering.

The PW7, Aminu Rabiu, a businessman with Falala Construction and Interior Decoration Company, Abuja, who was led in evidence by the prosecution counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo, SAN, informed the court that he received money for the renovation of Ali Bello’s houses from various people in cash instalments totaling more than N1,000,000,000.00( One Billion Naira)
He stated that the money was for the renovation of the former Kogi State governor’s houses located in various parts of Abuja and Kogi state.

Narrating how he met the former governor, the PW7 informed the court that he met Yahya Bello through his wife Amina Yahya Bello, since 2009. “Yes, I know the immediate past governor of Kogi state, his name is Alhaji Yahya Bello. I knew him through his wife, Amina Yahya Bello sometime in 2009.”

He told the court that he knew Ali Bello and Dauda Sulaiman.

When asked by Oyedepo who the properties in question belong to, the PW7 stated that the properties belong to the former governor, Yahya Bello. Oyedepo asked: “The properties in Jabi, No 9 Benghazi, No 9 Sabi street Zone Four, No 1 Ikogosi Maitama and the house in GRA OKENE, who owns the properties?” The witness said “Yahya Bello.”

He said the house he renovated in Life Camp belongs to Yahya Bello. “You mentioned Life camp, whose house are you referring to?”
His response, “Yahya Bello,”
“Your reference to Benghazi, whose house are you referring to,”
“It belongs to Yahaya Bello.”

The PW7 told the court that the money was paid in cash installments and the least he received was Eight Million Naira from various people who made the payment for Yahya Bello at No 9 Benghazi street and sometimes in life Camp in Ali Bello’s house.
Narrating the circumstances for the work and payment for the properties, the witness stated that he renovated the house at No 9 Benghazi Street, Abuja.

“No 9 Benghazi, I renovated the house, furnishing and furniture. I was paid about Three Hundred and something Million Naira, they paid me by cash, instalment.”
“At Jabi, I did renovations, finishing and polishing, I was paid around Two Hundred Million Naira, by cash installments.”

“Life camp, yes, I did furnishing and polishing. I can't remember but it is around Two Hundred Million Naira by cash.”
The witness informed the court that he is operating a bank account by which he receives money through his company’s name: Falala Construction, “I have a bank account with Zenith bank through which I receive money in my company’s name: Falala, he said.

While in Kogi state, the witness told the court that it was his company who demolished and rebuilt the Presidential Lodge in the state and was paid more than Six Hundred Million Naira.

“I did one job for the state government. I demolished and rebuilt the Presidential Lodge, I was paid around Six Hundred and something Million Naira and there is a variation of above One Hundred Million. The state government paid into my account”, he said.

“I also worked in Kogi state, Okene. I did renovation, I remodeled the house and the finishing. It was around Five Hundred Million Naira, (N500,000,000.00). They paid me in cash. They were made in Abuja.”
Thereafter, Justice Omotosho adjourned the matter to July 16, 2024 for continuation of trial.

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14/09/2023

*UNITED BANK FOR AFRICA PLC vs. ENUGO PETROLEUM LTD. & ORS.(2022)LCN/16528(CA)*

*ISSUE:* GARNISHEE PROCEEDINGS-Whether ordering a garnishee who disputes liability to produce documents of a garnished account is an option known to law(Issue is mine)

*PRINCIPLE:*
"I now come to the issue of whether or not the lower Court was right when it ordered the Appellant to produce the cheques and other instruments with which the Garnisheed Account was being operated. I see a zeal in the lower Court to get to the root of the matter, yet it was a zeal not in sync with the requirements of the law in Garnishee proceedings, in which there is no provision empowering the lower Court, in a Garnishee proceeding, to order the Garnishee to produce Cheques, mandate form, instruments etc., of the Garnisheed account. I therefore find the following statement of law by the lower Court disturbing as not representing the correct position of the law in Garnishee proceedings and I felt it should be corrected. The lower Court had stated inter alia thus:
“In the instant case, the Garnishee having failed to produce the particulars of the account opening of Exhibit A and the cheques used as per Exhibit A, I hold the view and the presumption is that if the documents are produced for the inspection of the Court, the evidence would be unfavorable to the Garnishee and I so hold.”
My Lords, where a Garnishee appears in Court in obedience to the Garnishee Order Nisi and files an affidavit to show cause disputing liability, the Sheriffs and Civil Process Act by Section 87 thereof, provides what should happen thus:
“If a garnishee appears and disputes his liability, the Court, instead of making an order that ex*****on shall issue, may order that any issue or question necessary for determining his liability be tried or determined in any manner in which any issue or question in any proceedings may be tried or determined, or may refer the matter to a referee.”
The above provision has been interpreted by the Courts as containing the options available to a trial Court in resolving a situation where a garnishee disputes liability. The position of case law seems to be where the affidavit evidence of the Garnishee discloses cither a prima facie case or some seriously conflicting facts to the affidavit evidence of the Garnishor in support of the Garnishee Order Nisi, then the Court must call for oral evidence to resolve the conflict in the evidence, but it cannot go outside the provisions of the law governing Garnishee proceedings to Order the Garnishee to produce particulars, mandate forms etc. of the Garnisheed Accounts. This was exactly what the lower Court did erroneously and on the strength of which it held that the Appellant was guilty of withholding of evidence as above. See Fidelity Bank Plc Vs. Samaila Ahmadu Gumau & Anor. (2019) LPELR-47068 (CA). See also Skye Bank Plc Vs. Colombara & Anor. (2014) LPELR-22641 (CA); Access Bank Pic Vs Adewusi (2017) LPELR-43495 (CA); First Bank of Nigeria Plc Vs. Okon (2017) LPELR 43530 (CA); Heritage Bank Ltd. V. Interlagos Oil Ltd. (2018) LPELR-44801 (CA); First Bank of Nigeria Plc Vs. Yegwa (2018) LPELR-45997 (CA)." Per GEORGEWILL, JCA.

*ISSUE:* GARNISHEE PROCEEDINGS-Whether funds belonging to a judgment debtor in an account bearing a different name can be subject to a garnishee order nisi and absolute(Issue is mine)

*PRINCIPLE:*
"My Lords, Garnishee proceeding is targeted not at just the account or holder of an account but at the funds in the account in the custody of the Garnishee. Thus, even where the account holder or account is in a different name but the money in the account belongs to the judgment debtor, such funds will be subject to a Garnishee Order Nisi and Absolute as the case may be. So, even the arguments that the Garnisheed Account belonged to the Appellant alone without proof that the funds in the said account does not belong to the Judgment debtors would not be sufficient for the Appellant to discharge the onus placed on it in a Garnishee proceeding." Per GEORGEWILL, JCA.