Ndume Admitted Links to Boko Haram, Says SSS

Ndume Admitted Links to Boko Haram, Says SSS

Published on Wednesday 24, October 2012 by


Nnamdi Felix / Abuja

An operative of the State Security Service, SSS, on Wednesday told a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja that embattled Senator Aliyu Mohammed Ndume who is standing trial for allegedly providing finance and logistics to the dreaded Boko Haram Islamic fundamentalists sect, admitted having links with the sect.

Senator Ndume represents Borno South Senatorial District at the National Assembly.

The operative, Mr. James Ene Izi appeared as prosecution witness 2 in the on-going trial of the senator and made the disclosure while giving evidence.

He further stated that the embattled senator confessed to having telephone interactions with the jailed former spokesperson of the sect, Ali Konduga in a voluntary statement he offered during interrogation at the SSS headquarters.

Mr. Izi added that when the senator and Konduga were made to face each other, Ndume claimed to be seeing the sect former spokesperson for the first time in his life, even though evidence obtained from phones showed that they had been communicating.

“In the process of investigating Konduga, he mentioned the name of the accused person, one Saidu Pindar who is now deceased and some of the politicians that have influenced the Boko Haram activities in Maiduguri” he added

“Upon this we invited the accused person formally for interrogation and made voluntary confessional statement where he admitted that he has been having link with the sect.”

Ene Izi also stated that the confession was further confirmed as the phone number of Konduga was found on Ndume’s mobile phone.

However during cross examination by Ndume’s lawyers led by Mr. Rickey Tarfa, a senior advocate of Nigeria, the witness told the court that Konduga did not finger the senator as one of those financing the sect.

On Ndume’s claim that he handed a Compact Disc obtained from the Boko Haram sect to the Vice President, Namadi Sambo and the Director General of the SSS, the witness stated that the investigative panel did not have any audience with the Vice President to confirm this claim by Ndume and added that part of the materials retrieved from the accused’s house included laptop,phones and international passport.

The presiding judge, Justice Gabriel Kolawole adjourned further proceedings till December for continuation of trial.

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