A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja will on December 14 decide whether or not to admit as evidence exhibits tendered against Senator Ali Ndume over his links to Boko Haram.
A forensic expert with the State Security Service (SSS), Aliyu Umar Musa, testified that the lawmaker had 73 telephone conversations with the convicted spokesperson of Boko Haram, Ali Konduga between the months of May and November 2011.
He also added that the lawmaker stored Mr Konduga’s mobile phone number as ‘Konduga’ with the initial Boko Haram.
The conversation which was documented on three DVD plates is now being contested by Ndume’s lawyer, Mr Ricky Tarfa, who argued that the said evidence is a public document and should have been certified in line with the constitution and the rules of the court.
However counsel to the Federal Government, Thomspon Olatunde asked the court to disregard the objections raised by Mr Tarfa, as he admitted the evidence because it is not a public document since it was the findings of the forensic examiner, whose duty it to carry out investigation on the evidence.
