The corruption trial of Sylvestre Ngwuta, a Justice of the Supreme Court, continued on Wednesday with a prosecution witness narrating how Ngwuta instructed his boy to remove incriminating evidences from his house in Abakiliki, Ebonyi State, before law enforcement agents could search the place.

Ngwuta is one of the judges whose residences were raided by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) in October 2016.

He was accused of corruption and arraigned before Justice John Tsoho of the Federal High Court, Abuja, and was granted bail  in the sum of N100 million.

At the resumption of trial on Wednesday, Ibrahim Ndakpoto, a prosecution witness, tendered the sum of N4 million before the court, being money allegedly recovered from Ngwuta’s house in Abakiliki.

Ndakpoto, a DSS official, told the court that Ngwuta had called one of his boys named Linus Chukwuebuka and instructed him to remove all the cash and exotic vehicles in the building so that nothing would be found there should the authorities decide to conduct a search.

“Chukwuebuka told me that Justice Ngwuta called him and asked him to go to his bedroom and remove the documents and the bag containing the money and hide them because if the DSS should lay eyes on it, he would be in trouble,” Ndakpoto said.

“He also told us that Ngwuta asked him to move some cars, a BMW, a Wrangler jeep and a Hummer jeep and that he further asked him to disappear afterwards so that he will not be arrested.”

Justice Tsoho ordered that the money tendered as evidence be counted right there in the courtroom to ensure that it was complete.

The case was adjourned till Thursday, January 11, for continuation of hearing.

After his house was raided, Ngwuta wrote an open letter to Mahmud Mohammed, then Chief Justice of Nigeria, accusing Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of Transportation, and Ogbonnaya Onu, Minister of Science of Technology, of orchestrating his ordeal.

Ngwuta said Amaechi and Onu had vowed to get back at him for his refusal to cooperate with them and pervert justice in some electoral cases that he presided over.