N4.4 Billion Subsidy Scam: Mamman Ali Used Forged Documents – Witness

A prosecution witness, Mr Chidi Onyedikwe, on Wednesday told an Ikeja High Court that some documents used by an oil marketer, Mamman Ali, to collect N4.4 billion subsidy were forged.Onyedikwe was testifying at the resumed trial of Mamman, who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over a subsidy scam.
He was charged alongside Christian Taylor, a Sierra Leonean; Oluwaseun Ogunbambo, an oil marketer, and Nassaman Oil Services.
Onyedikwe, the Lagos branch manager of Inspectorate Marine Services Nigeria Ltd., had, on Feb. 21, testified that the defendants used fraudulent documents to obtain the money.
Under cross-examination by counsel to the defendants, Mr Kolade Obafemi, and Mr Adebayo Adenipekun, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, the witness maintained that his company did not issue the documents.
Onyedikwe listed the documents to include cargo transfer, certificate of quantity, certificate of quality and haulage, all bearing the logos, signatures and stamps of his company.
He said: “As I said, we went through our operational records, our laboratory records and account records.
“Those documents did not emanate from our company even though it was bearing our logos, stamps and signatures.”
Onyedikwe said the haulage report showed that the defendants had imported the petroleum products and that his company had inspected the products.
He said that the company did not assign any of its inspectors to carry out the said transaction.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the EFCC had in its charges, claimed that the defendants presented the documents to the Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency (PPPRA) to obtain the subsidy.
The case, which is being heard by Justice Adeniyi Onigbanjo, was adjourned to May 28.

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