Babachir Lawal's grass cutting scandal: What happened in court on Thursday - Daily Post Nigeria

ngoing trial against the former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Babachir Lawal, and three others.

At the resumed hearing, the witness, a civil servant with the Federal Ministry of Industry, Trade and Investment, Buwai, who was the Head of Finance, Presidential Initiative For North East, PINE, attached to the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, OSGF, told the court that he was responsible for all payments made by PINE to contractors, consultants and staff payments.

Buwai stated that when the project was almost completed, Rholavision issued Coalition Certificate to the government demanding for payment for the 95% of the job done, which was submitted to him, as the Accountant for payment. The witness further told the court that the contract was valued at about N272, 500,000, only adding that it was based on the 95 per cent conclusion agreement that the companies were paid the sum of N258, 000,000 but based on the paucity of funds at the that time, they were paid N225, 000,000.

However, the Prosecution counsel, Offem Uket, prayed the court to tender the payment vouchers raised in the name of Rholavisio Engineering Ltd and Josmon Technologies Ltd with the attached documents.

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