Salisu Abdullahi, a retired Air Commodore and former Director of Finance and Account, Nigerian Air Force, Headquaters who is testifying against former Chief of Air Staff, Alex Badeh, told an Abuja Federal High Court today that the person who was responsible for changing the sum of N558 thousand monthly into United States Dollars for Badeh was actually working directly for the former Chief of Air Staff.
The witness, told the court that he was not privy to the actual process of preparing the budget, but merely makes inputs as a Director of Finance.
According to him, the officer in charge of the said conversion of Nigerian Currency into US dollars for Badeh was ordered to be brought to his (Abdullahi’s) office where his main responsibility will be to change the said sum, on a monthly basis into US Dollars and hand it over to Abdullhi who takes it over to his principal.
The witness told the court that the office of the Deputy Director of Budget that was in charge of preparing the Nigerian Air force Budget.
Abdullahi who told the court that the Deputy Director of Finance was the one in charge of the allocations in the office of the Directorate of Finance, Nigerian Air Force Head Quarters, added that he was merely overseeing the allocation of finances on a broader base, and not directly under any office in the Air Force.
The case was adjourned till April 19 for continuation of trial.
