Reports reaching the ViewPointNigeria news desk suggests that Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume who has been charged to court over his alleged connections to the deadly Boko Haram sect, has asked the Appeal Court to squash the evidence presented against. Senator Ndume’s call was following the presentation of additional evidence by the Federal Government, proving that he supplied highly classified information to the sect and that he was in constant communication with the sect on several occassions in the previous year.

Ndume requested the court to discount the newly presented evidence which showed that he made several contacts with the deadly sect. His request comes at the backdrop of the previous trial on 14th December 2012 under Justice Gabrial Kolawole during which evidence of 73 contacts/communications with the sect was admitted.

The fresh evidence, of which Senator Ndume was requesting the court to squash, was presented by a forensic expert within the Department of State Security, Mr. Aliyu Usman. He asserted that the contact/communication was between Senator Ndume and a self-confessed Boko Haram spokesman and that all communication took place last year.

At the sitting yesterday, Senator Ndume’s lawyer A.O. Jolawo told Justice Kolawole that he had filed an appeal to challenge the earlier decisions made by the prior trial Judge and therefore requested that Justice Kolawole suspends hearing pending the outcome of the application. The prosecution counsel Thompson Olatigbe, however urged the court to proceed with the cross examination of witnesses on the basis that the motion for stay was not yet established.

Reports reaching the ViewPointNigeria news desk suggests that Senator Mohammed Ali Ndume who has been charged to court over his alleged connections to the deadly Boko Haram sect, has asked the Appeal Court to squash the evidence presented against. Senator Ndume’s call was following the presentation of additional evidence by the Federal Government, proving that he supplied highly classified information to the sect and that he was in constant communication with the sect on several occassions in the previous year.

Ndume requested the court to discount the newly presented evidence -his request comes at the backdrop of the previous trial on 14th December 2012 under Justice Gabrial Kolawole during which evidence of 73 contacts/communications with the sect was admitted.

The fresh evidence, was presented by a forensic expert within the Department of State Security, Mr. Aliyu Usman. He asserted that the contact/communication was between Senator Ndume and a self-confessed Boko Haram spokesman and that all communication took place last year.

At the sitting yesterday, Senator Ndume’s lawyer A.O. Jolawo told Justice Kolawole that he had filed an appeal to challenge the earlier decisions made by the prior trial Judge and therefore requested that Justice Kolawole suspends hearing pending the outcome of the application. The prosecution counsel Thompson Olatigbe, however urged the court to proceed with the cross examination of witnesses on the basis that the motion for stay was not yet established.

The hearing for the application of stay on the matter was adjourned till 19th February 2012.

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Boko haram: Senator Ndume asks court to discount evidence presented