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Katsina-Alu Vs Salami - MTN Disowns Call Log Tendered by NSA(AllAfrica Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) The multinational mobile telecommunications company, MTN, yesterday said that the contentious call log purportedly detailing conversation between the President of the Court of Appeal Ayo Salami and some lawyers did not emanate from it because it owes its customers confidentiality. MTN said this yesterday while testifying before the Justice Umaru Abdullahi panel investigating the allegations of unethical behaviour against the Chief Justice of Nigeria Aloysius Katsina Alu and President of the Court of Appeal Ayo Salami. The Justice Umaru Abdullahi panel is also probing unethical behaviour on the part of other Justices of the Court of Appeal who sat on both the Osun and Ekiti governorship appeal panels. MTN Senior Manager, Corporate Legal Mr. Rotimi Odusola, who came to Abuja from Lagos, said he could not confirm the authenticity of the contentious call log which was tendered by the petitioners. Odusola said that the contentious CDR did not emanate from MTN adding that MTN never used the paper on which it was printed. The National Security Adviser (NSA) retired General Owoye Azazi, had through the Director, Lawful Intercept, Ndubuisi Onyia, declared the call logs which were made available to the panel as genuine. Onyia, who told the panel then that he appeared on behalf of the NSA, signed the cover letter that accompanied the call logs recovered by the security agencies from four mobile telecommunications companies in the country. Salami and the other justices of the Court of Appeal were said to have engaged in telephone conversations which eventually resulted in the tribunal sacking both Olagunsoye Oyinlola and Segun Oni former governors of Osun and Ekiti states respectively in which the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) was declared winner. The call logs were supplied by the petitioners but the PCA said that they are a mere fabrication. The MTN officer said the company as a policy only provides such Call Data Records (CDR) to only three categories of persons under a covering letter requesting for it. These are: a competent Court; law enforcement agencies and the subscriber after establishing that he is the owner of the line. Meanwhile, the panel has adjourned its sitting to enable parties to file their final written addresses. Copyright Daily Trust. Distributed by AllAfrica Global Media (allAfrica.com). |