Drama in court as witness identified aide who allegedly paid N320K for Fani-Kayode’s forged medical report
Ayodele Olalere
A Prosecution witness, Habibah Awalu, on Friday, told a Special Offences Court in Ikeja how a former Minster of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode, paid N320, 000 to secure a forged medical records.
Habibah Awalu who is a media practitioner was led in evidence by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) Counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo, at the resumption of trial.
Narrating how the money was paid to her in tranches by one of the aides of the former Minister, the witness said she received the N320, 000 in two tranches of N120, 000 and later N200,000 cash from one Mr. Mark who is a staff of the defendant at his Abuja residence in Aso Drive.
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EFCC Counsel thereafter asked her if she would be able to identify the said Mr. Mark if she see him in the court, and the witness answered in affirmative.
Subsequently the prosecutor asked her to point to him but the defendant counsel, Norrison Quacker SAN opposed the identification.
The development led to an argument between the two counsel but the court thereafter ruled in favor of the prosecutor.
Subsequently, the witness pointed at one of Fani-Kayode’s aides in court who put on white native attire as the said Mr. Mark.
The witness was further asked to identified an exhibit, if it was the medical report she assisted the defendant to procure and she acknowledged that the exhibit P4a which is a medical report of the defendant is the document.
In her evidence she said that sometimes in 2019 Femi Fani-Kayode asked her to help her in obtaining a medical report.
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The second prosecutor witness said that she drafted out Fani-Kayode instructions using a pen and paper which she later forwarded to a friend to secure a medical report from Kubwa General Hospital.
Mr Oyedepo however pleaded for an adjournment for him to tender the phone of which the witness used in reaching out to the defendant saying that he forgot the phone at the EFCC office.
Justice Fadipe Abike therefore granted the request of the prosecution and adjourned the matter to April 8th and 29th , 2022 for continuation of trial.
