Rickey Tarfa 'It wasn't a bribe,' lawyer admits to giving judge N225,000

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Rickey Tarfa 'It wasn't a bribe,' lawyer admits to giving judge N225,000

The embattled Rickey Tarfa(SAN) has denied the allegation that he bribed Justice Mohammed ?Yunusa over a casebordering on obstruction of justice before the judge.The Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) had alleged that? Tarfa had telephone conversations with the judge over the case.


The agency provided phone numbers of the accused, the judge, and bank documents with details of the N225,000 transfer from the lawyer to Justice Yunusa.


In an affidavit filed before a Federal ?High Court in Lagos on Friday, February 19, Tarfa said the money was a donation to the judge following the loss and burial of his father-in-law.It reads:“The applicant (Mr. Tarfa) didnot on 7th January, 2014 bribe Honourable Justice M.N. Yunusa with the sum of N225,000 or any other sumat all,” the lawyer stated in the affidavit deposed to by John Odubela, the head of his chambers.

It was common knowledge in the legal circles that Honourable Justice M.N. Yunusa lost his father-in-law, Alhaji Audi Garba Damasa on the 28thDecember, 2013 in Maiduguri and travelled there to attend to the funeral rites.