How ex-Customs boss, Inde, paid N12m into Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia’s account -witness

A former Deputy Comptroller General, Nigerian Customs Service, Musa Tahir, on Thursday said he had no clue why the service paid N12 million into Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia’s bank account.

Giving his testimony during cross-examination by Olawale Akoni in the trial before an Ikeja High Court, Mr. Tahir said, “I have seen Hon. Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia but I have never met her one on one.

“I don’t know why the former Comptroller General of Customs (CGC), Alhaji Abdullahi Dikko said the money should be paid into my colleague Musa Omale’s account to be forwarded into the company account of the judge.

“I don’t have the paper in which the CGC wrote the directive; the paper was handed over to Omale who worked in my office.

“I don’t know the source of the money, the CGC who gave the directive is still alive.”

NAN recalls that Tahir while giving his evidence-in-chief on May 26 had told the court that the NCS had paid N12 million sourced from 12 Area Commands into the bank account of the judge.

In his May 26 testimony, Mr. Tahir had said, “Sometime in 2014, when I was a Deputy Comptroller General, I was working at the NCS headquarters Wuse, Abuja I was in the office of the CGC, Mr. Abdullahi Dikko, my immediate boss.

“Dikko handed a paper and the name and bank account details of a company called Nigel and Colive was written on it.