EFCC investigator claims unaware of NAF, FAAN dispute over Katsina airport project site

An researcher with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Christopher Odofin has told the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, that helium was not alert of a quality betwixt the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, and the Federal Aviation Authority of Nigeria, FAAN, implicit the tract of declaration awarded to Al Buraq Global Investment Limited astatine the Katsina airport.

Odofin, who is the 12th prosecution witness, PW12, successful the ongoing proceedings of the contiguous past Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Abubakar Sirika, and 3 others, said this connected Wednesday portion being transverse examined by counsel for Al Buraq, Michael Numa SAN.

He said determination was nary onshore allocated for the enlargement of an apron astatine the airport.

Sirika is being prosecuted by the EFCC connected behalf of the Federal Government, earlier Justice Sylvanus Oriji, sitting astatine Maitama, Abuja, alongside his daughter, Fatima and son-in-law, Hamman Jalal Sule, and a institution purported owned by the couple, Al Buraq Global Investment Limited, connected a six-count complaint bordering connected maltreatment of bureau and declaration fraud to the tune of N2.8 billion.

The erstwhile curate was alleged to person abused his bureau arsenic a curate to confer unfair vantage connected Al Buraq Global Investment Limited by utilizing his presumption to power grant of declaration for the apron hold for the sum of N1,498,300,750, a...