Abuja – A prosecution witness, Aliyu Zubairu, on Friday told an FCT High Court that he did not receive bribe from any contractor before making his reports to enable payment during his tenure as deputy General Manager of the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF).
Zubairu, a former Deputy General Manager and Head of cooperate Affairs of the NSITF, said that part of his responsibility was to inspect contracts before payments were made to the contractor.
He said this while testifying in the alleged N18 billion fraud case filed against former Managing Director of NSITF, Umar Abubakar and his co-defendants.
NAN reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Nov. 23, 2017 arraigned Abubakar, Henry Sambo, Adebayo Aderibigbe, Chief Richard Uche and Aderemi Adegboyega on an 18-count charge bordering on conspiracy, abuse of office and illegal diversion of public funds.
Zubairu, during cross-examination by, Joe Kalu, counsel to Aderibigbe told the court that all…
