Nigeria, May 8 -- A prosecution witness, Shehu Bello, on Thursday told the Federal High Court in Abuja that Ali Bello, the Chief of Staff to Kogi State Governor Usman Ododo, made several cash payments running into millions of naira for the construction of a property in Maitama.

Shehu testified in the ongoing N80.2 billion money laundering trial of former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello, at the Federal High Court in Abuja.

Ali, the Kogi State Governor's Chief Staff, and former Governor Yahaya Bello, are relatives. The former governor is an uncle to Ali. Although, the prosecution witness, Shehu Bello, shares a surname with the duo, he is not known to be related to them by blood.

Ali is also standing trial before another judge of the Fe...