According to PM News, while being led in evidence by prosecuting counsel, Chile Okoroma, stated that his presence was to reveal account statements for one of the bank’s customers: Dantata and Sawoe Construction Company.

He said:“The first entry on the 23rd of April 2013 was a clearing cheque of over N7m (seven million) in favour of Bamaina Holdings Limited, another cheque of over N7m (seven million naira) in favour of Speeds International Limited and yet another cheque of over N7m in favour of Gada Construction.

“The same sets of cheques were however paid to all the three companies on the 26th of April 2013.”

In the same vein, Mashi, whose code name was PW2, testified that his bank was subpoenaed and that he was in court to tender the statement of account and account opening packages of Speeds International Limited, Bamaina Holdings Limited and Alhaji Sule Lamido.

The admissibility of the document was however contested by Joe Agbi, SAN, who argued that the subpoena was specific about which documents to bring. He also stated further that Mashi only brought the application for the reactivation of the account which presupposes that an account already existed.

Agbi said:“The witness is a ‘special witness’ subpoenaed by the court to bring certain documents and since all court orders must be obeyed, the witness must bring the particular documents he was asked to bring”as he sought the court’s permission to disregard the documents.