Former labour and employment minister Chris Ngige’s defence team in his ongoing N2.2 billion fraud trial said on Thursday that he legitimately oversaw procurements for the Nigeria Social Insurance Trust Fund (NSITF), one of the parastatals supervised by his ministry, citing a presidential directive. But the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which is prosecuting the former minister before the FCT High Court in Abuja for corruption in his handling of the NSITF procurements, cited a letter from the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) to counter Mr Ngige’s claim. EFCC, through its second prosecution witness, Kelly Nwagha who is a former Acting Managing Director of the NSITF, maintained that the BPP had sole legal jurisdiction over NSITF contracts. It was so undisputed that, he...