Bankole, Nafada: NASS, Reps Clerks Are Culprits...Says EFCC!

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)yesterday told an Abuja High Court that the Clerk of the National Assembly, Salisu Maikasuwa and his counterpart in the House of Representatives, Mr. Sanni Omolori, were neck deep in the alleged N38 billion loan obtained by the former leadership of the House under ex-speaker, Dimeji Bankole and his deputy, Hon Usman Nafada.
The EFCC is prosecuting
Bankole and Nafada in a 17- count charge. But the EFCC had urged the court to take judicial notice of documents bearing the signatures of Maikasuwa and Omolori which was used in the final approval
for the controversial loan. At the resumed hearing of the case yesterday lawyer to Bankole's Chief Adegboyega Awomolo (SAN), said the man that was liable to be charged for criminal breach of trust which his client was facing was the one who had the control of the fund. Referring to a memo from Omolori, Awomolo said. "There is no where the accused person said I approve. If the accused is the authority to approve the money, the clerk of the House will not go to the National Assembly clerk for approval.
"The man to be liable the criminal breach of trust must be the one who has the control; it is the clerk of the National Assembly".
Responding, the EFCC's
lawyer, Mr. Festus Keyamo, agreed that all those who appended their signatures for the approval of the loan obtained by the House were conspirators.
He admitted that the signatures of the National Assembly clerk and that of the House appeared on the
documents seeking approval for the controversial loan.

Source:
Leadership