Lulu, Ogunjobi corruption allegation: Fed High Court cross-examines Ekeji

FROM ROMANUS UGWU

In continuation of the corruption charges placed against the for­mer eggheads of the Nigeria Football Federa­tion (NFF), comprising ex-president Sani Lulu, his vice, Amaze Uchegbu­lam, General Secretary, Dr. Bolaji Ojo-Oba and the technical committee chairman, Taiwo Ogun­jobi, a Federal High Court in Abuja yesterday cross-examined former director general, National Sports Commission (NSC), Chief Dr Patrick Ekeji.

Ekeji who was on the witness box as a prosecut­ing witness was cross-ex­amined by the counsel to Sani Lulu, Sunday Ibrahim Ameh (SAN), on various is­sues relating to the running of Nigerian football, with the NSC telling the court that as a supervising agency the commission under his ten­ure as director general only knew what the NFF wanted it to know.

Asked what he knew about the source of funding of the federation, the former NSC DG argued that the Federal Government provides the major funding required by the NFF, noting, however, that the federation sources funds from other sources to supplement government funding.

Although Dr Ekeji claimed that NSC received and ap­proved NFF’s proposals for the purchase of two Marco­polo Buses for the use of the national teams, he however, told the court that he never saw the buses, arguing that rather than purchasing the buses from Messrs Ekene Dili Chukwu Nigeria Ltd as stipulated in the proposals and approved, NFF bought the buses from another com­pany at a price that was high­er than what was contained at the approved proposals.

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