The Court of Appeal in Abuja has reversed the discharge and acquittal of former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian Air Force Holding Company and Air Force Commanding, Training Command, Air Vice Marshal Alkali Mohammadu Mamu on corruption charges by Justice Salisu Garba of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory .
Mamu was convicted on count two, in which he was found to have “corruptly” accepted a gift of $300,000, through Kalli Fertilizer Company from Himma Abubakar, owner of Societe D’ Equipment International Nig. Ltd , a company engaged to supply military equipment to NAF, under Mamu’s supervision. The EFCC filed a four-count charge against Mamu in 2016 and on which he was tried before the High Court of the FCT, following which Justice Garba, in a judgment on June 29, 2018, discarded and acquitted him on all four counts and held among others, that the prosecution failed to prove its case, a decision EFCC’s lawyer, Sylvanus Tahir appealed.
“The sum of $300,000 was not legitimate income from his employers. Mr. Himma Abubakar was not respondent’s employer and had no business paying the respondent any sum as appreciation. This is coming at the backdrop of the admission by the respondent that he got more than he was allegedly entitled to.
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