Alleged N109bn Fraud: EFCC witness denies non-prosecution deal with ex-accountant-general

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Mr Muri, an official from the Kano office of the EFCC, testified as the commission’s third witness in a trial-within-trial the court is conducting to determine the voluntariness of an extrajudicial statement Mr Idris gave in writing in June 2022. His co-defendants, who were similarly accused of complicity in the alleged fraud and other related offences, are Godfrey Olusegun Akindele, Mohammed Usman, Gezawa Commodity Market, and Exchange Limited.During his ongoing trial, he challenged the admissibility of the statement he made to the EFCC when the prosecutor tendered it alongside similar ones he gave during the investigation.

The statement that he made in Kano on 10 June 2022 centred on title documents of assets traced to him. He submitted the documents to EFCC before settling down to write the statement. According to the witness, on Mr Idris’ arrival at EFCC’s Kano office on 10 June 2022, he met the then zonal commander, Faruk Dogon Daji, an Assistant Commander of EFCC.

“I administered a cautionary word, I told him his rights, I wrote out the cautionary word, and he said he understood, and thereafter he volunteered his statement mentioning the documents one after the other and signed the documents with the date of that day,” Mr Muri told the judge.He adjourned the matter till 29 October for defence in the trial-within-trial after the counsel to the first defendant cross-examined the witness.

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