From Godwin Tsa, Abuja
The trial of Justice Sylvester Ngwuta resumed yesterday before the Abuja division of the Federal High Court where the Federal Government tendered nine bags and boxes filled with local and foreign currencies allegedly recovered from the official residence of the jurist in October 2016, by operatives of the Department of States Security Service (DSS).
Justice John Tsoho directed that the N35 million contained in the bags be deposited with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
Justice Ngwuta is standing trial on 13 counts, bordering on money laundering, passport fraud and allegations of retention and concealment of origin of the various sums of money contained in the nine bags and boxes.
On May 16, 2017, the Federal government called its fifth witness, Mr. John Utazi, an operative of the DSS, who narrated how he led a team of other operatives to search Justice Ngwuta’s official residence in Abuja on October 7, 2016.
The witness revealed how huge sums of money in local and foreign currencies, contained in bags and boxes, were recovered at the end of the operation, which was carried out in the presence of Justice Ngwuta.
Testifying yesterday at the resumed trial, Utazi said the bags and boxes contained naira, United States dollars, British pounds sterling, euro, South African rands, United Arab Emirates dirham and The Gambian dalasis.
The bags were later opened in court revealing the cash in them.
Out of the nine items, eight of them contained naira notes, which Utazi said totaled N35,358,000.
He said the ninth bag contained £25,915; $319,596; R50; €280; 380 dirhams; and 420 daisies.
Meanwhile, the prosecution counsel, Mrs. Fatunde, applied that they should be returned to the DSS for onward transfer to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) for safe keeping, pending conclusion of the trial.
The application was not opposed by Ngwuta’s lawyer, Chief Kanu Agabi (SAN).
While granting the request, Justice Tsoho ordered that the monies be recounted in the presence of counsel for the prosecution, the defence and an officer of the high court.
The judge directed that afterwards, it should be deposited with the CBN by the Deputy Chief Registrar of the court in charge of litigation.
Justice Sylva Ngwuta is just one of the victims of an ongoing
campaign to cleanse Igbos from every Institution in the polity.
Top Igbos Officers in the Nigerian Armed and the Police Forces have summarily been sacked without reasons.
This anti-Igbo cleansing campaign was ordered by our rogue
Fulani President,Mallam Muhammad Buhari,at the behest of the
Caliphate of Sokoto.
The Caliphate of Sokoto, the Power-That-Be in the polity sees
us Ndigbo, as a threat to its quest to Islamize,Sharialize and
make our fatherland an Uthman Dan Fodio Estate for the Fulani
cattle driver sojourners of the North.
The purported money bag (Akpa Okpogho),found in the Abuja residence of Justice Sylva Ngwuta,was actually planted by
Chief John Utasi and his gang of Gestapo morons, in order to nail
the innocent man.
Chief John Utasi and his men simply broke into Justice Ngwuta residence without a warrant and in the middle of the night, in their anti-Igbo campaign.
All Igbo Leaders; Political,Religious and Traditional alike must
stand up now and let their voices be heard as far as in Atlanta.
Ndigbo must not be silent over these onging intimidations,
humiliations, collective insults and affronts against us.
The other times,it was Mazi Metu,who was constantly paraded in
hand cuffs in the public,yesterday it was Mazi Ubah with trump up
charges gainst him for stealing , and today it is Justice Ngwuta being lampooned and his name being dragged in the mud nation wide.
Enough is enough.
We Biafrans have had enough from the Nigerians.The time has come for us to go our separate way.We Biafrans are Christians and we are currently unwelcome in this Islamic Republic of Nigeria.
The other time we were alone.But this time round,we shall not be alone,because lots of Nigerians today,know better.
We Indigenous Nigerians can never ever cohabit with the Troglodytes,the barbaric Fulani muslim cattle drivers of the North.
No to the status quo ante bellum!
Down with Hausa/Fulani Islamic Hegermony!!
Hail Biafra!!!