It was a shocking revelation yesterday at the
Federal High Court sitting in Abuja when more
sordid details regarding Ndume’s transaction with
Boko Haram emerged.
Chief investigator of the State Security Service,
SSS, Mr James Ene Izih, told the Court that a
Senator, Mohammed Ndume, gave the telephone
number of the Attorney General of the
Federation, Mohammed Adoke, to the Boko
Haram sect. It would be recalled that Mr. Ndume,
a serving Senator representing Borno South
Senatorial District, is standing trial for his alleged
ties to Boko Haram. The accused has, however,
said he established the link to facilitate peace as a
member of the Presidential Committee on
Security in the North East Zone.
Mr. Izih, who headed the Special Investigation
Panel, SIP, set up to investigate Mr. Ndume, said
that a former spokesman of Boko Haram, Ali
Konduga a.k.a Usman Alzawahiri, revealed the
information to the panel. The panel was informed
by the said Konduga that the senator provided
him with the telephone number of Mr. Adoke.
The witness allegedly told the panel that the
number was used to bargain a governorship
petition filed by the People’s Democratic Party,
PDP, in Borno state. Mr. Ineh said that the former
Boko Haram spokesman affirmed that the calls to
Mr. Adoke were threats to scare him into
influencing the Governorship Election Tribunal
members to give judgement in favour of the PDP
or risk mayhem in the State.
He further explained that the name of the
Attorney General was dragged into the panel
report submitted on November 25, 2011 on the
grounds that his GSM number was found in Mr.
Konduga’s telephone set. Mr. Izih, in his
testimony asserted that the items found in the
senator’s phone
were indicative of his close links with the dreaded
Islamist sect.
“The fact that Konduga was tried and convicted
of terrorism acts is enough to show that the
accused is also liable,’’ he concluded. The judge,
Gabriel Kolawole, adjourned the suit to
November 1, November 5 and December 11 for
further hearing.
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