Trial of Ex-Chief of Air Staff, Dikko Umar, resumes
Trial of Ex-Chief of Air Staff, Dikko Umar, resumes
By Matthew Eloyi
The trial of former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Mohammed Dikko Umar has resumed on Monday before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, with the prosecuting counsel, Sylvanus Tahir cross-examining the defendant.
Tahir asked Dikko to tell the court how long he served the Nigerian Air Force and any other thing he does, apart from working with the Nigerian Air Force.
The defendant told the court that he served thirty-six years with the Nigerian air force, and also owns three farms in Kaduna and Abuja.
According to him, the Abuja farm is 17 hectares of land and the other two in Kaduna are four hectares and 200 hectares respectively.
He said he took over as Chief of Air Staff on 8 September 2010 and retired on 1 October 2012.
Justice Dimgba thereafter adjourned the matter till Thursday, 30 September 2021 for the continuation of trial.
It would be recalled that Dikko was first arraigned on 25 January 2017 on a 7-count charge of money laundering and procurement fraud to the tune of N9.7 billion.
Trial of Ex-Chief of Air Staff, Dikko Umar, resumes
