Mr. Rickey Tarfa, SAN, who before the Federal High Court initiated a N2.5 billion fundamental rights suit to challenge his arrest, detention, seizure of his phone and car by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has declared before the court sitting in Lagos that the alleged N225,000 paid into Justice Mohammed Yunusa of the Federal High Court in Lagos was nothing but a lie.
The SAN confirmed to the court that the money was instead paid into the account of Mohammed Awwal Yunusa, a former staff of the chambers and an indigene of Kogi State.
Contained in an affidavit of Urgency deposed to by Head of Chambers, Rickey Tarfa SAN and Co., Mr. Segun Odubela, he maintained that the Access bank account the EFCC claimed belonged to Justice Yunusa, where the alleged N225,000 was paid into by Mr. Tarfa belonged to the Kogi state indegene and former staff of the chambers, Mohammed Awwal Yunusa.
The Head of Chambers, Mr. Odubela further stated that Mohammed Awwal Yunusa who was following the case of his former employer through the media noticed the account number 0060351694 belonging to him and Mohammed in his deposition recalled a transaction went through on January 7, 2014 when an Access bank counter cheque No. 00002065 for N225,000 was issued to him, an amount which he received in his Access bank account No 0060351694 held in his name, Mohammed Awwal Yunusa.
Mohammed further added that he was contacted by Mr. Samaila Malgwi, the accountant of the Abuja office at No 2, Librevile Street Off Aminu Kano Crescent Wuse II, Abuja on February 22, 2016, who had checked the office records and informed him that the cheque issued to him for N225,000 was the only cheque issued by Tarfa and Co. on January 7, 2014.