How Justice Ngwuta utilized different travel permits wrongfully – Witness‎ tells court

The Nigerian Immigration Service, NIS, has told a Federal High Court sitting Abuja, that a suspended equity of the Supreme Court, Sylvester Ngwuta, utilized two comparative standard global travel permits conversely. 

A ranking staff of NIS, Tanko Kutana, made the claim while being interrogated by direct for the litigant, Chief Kanu Agabi, SAN. 

The senior legal advisor was among seven unrivaled court judges that were captured between Oct. 7 and Oct. 8, 2016, after the DSS attacked their homes in what it named a "sting operation." 

Ugwuta is charged to have been in control of different standard travel international IDs and reserved outside monetary forms in his Abuja home. 

The witness said the administration was not in the position to question the litigant when he demonstrated verification of his missing universal international ID. 

He said the administration along these lines issued him another one, in view of the quality of the oath pronouncing his old identification missing. 

Kutana, nonetheless, told the court that the administration was shocked find that the litigant was utilizing the two international IDs stamped with visas at the same time. 

He said it was inside and out wrongdoing to have and utilize two standard travel papers with comparable enrollment number conversely. 

Kutana stated, "My Lord, the new visa was issued to Justice Ngwuta by the Immigration Service, having been persuaded that he really lost the first. 

"The administration supplanted the lost international ID since it had no reason to question the sworn statement confirm dismissed to by the respondent when he detailed the loss of the report. 

"The legal report demonstrates that the litigant, Ngwuta utilizing the two standard travel permits compatible, at the season of his capture on Oct. 7, 2016 by the agents of the Department of State Service. 

"We would not have been here if the respondent had restored the recuperated international ID to the administration when he discovered it. 

"I did the investigation on the six visas to decide if there was fabrication and when I closed my examination of the travel papers I found no proof of falsification in any of them." 

Kutana included that there were conditions under which a subject could have more than one visa, including that it did exclude having two comparative ones. 

Notwithstanding, Justice John Tsoho suspended the trial until Oct. 20