Mamu, standing trial on a four count amended charges of corruption and bribery preferred against him by the EFCC, told the trial judged, Justice Salisu Garba of the High Court of the FCT that he was tutored and teleguided in making his statement by the EFCC.
At the resumed trail, the retired officer, while been led in evidence by his counsel, Joseph Daudu, SAN, narrated how the EFCC suppressed part of his statement and also threatened to call his two daughters should he failed to refund back the money he is being accused of collecting as bribe.
According to him, his request that his lawyers be present during his interrogation and his subsequent writing of his statement was turned down on the grounds that all they were after was the recovery of funds.
He said, though he was accompanied to the EFCC’s office by one Commander Sunday Jigawa who was at that time NAF Deputy Director, yet the operatives refused to allow him be by his side.
“The first statement I wrote is not before this court. The additional statement marked n1 and n4 obtained from St1 was removed from the statement I made.
” Again I noticed that the supporting documents I submitted both in st1 and St 2 are not before this court” he said.
Evidences of transactions he had with Hima Abubakar of Societe D’Equipments Internationaux Nigeria Limited (the company EFCC alleged he received the bribe from) were presented and tendered as exhibit.
While insisting that he was innocent of the charges brought against him by the EFCC, the defendant prayed the court to discharge and acquit him of all the four charges.
Mamu, who told the court that his vehicles impounded by the EFCC are still in the custody of the anti-graft agency, therefore, prayed the court for an order to return the vehicles and or replaced them if they were found to be in a bad shape.
He further prayed the court to compel the EFCC operatives to return the sum of $300,000 and N5.9million they obtained from him.
But the prosecuting counsel, Sylvanus Tahir who had vehemently opposed the tendering of the 2nd document said, the documents were never part of the proceedings.
He said that the document sought to be tendered which is a letter to the Attorney General of the Federation was not addressed to the EFCC.
Tahir, wondered why a document addressed to AGF will be tendered to a different agency and added that they are gross violation of sections of the Evidence Act and therefore cannot be admissible.
At the end of evidence, Justice Garba adjourned to 13 and 14 December for ruling on the objections of prosecution counsel to the admissibility of some of the documents and for cross examination.
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