Fayose
- * ‘We spent 10 days counting the money’
- By Soni Daniel
- Abuja—The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday continued the examination of its first prosecution witness, Alade Oluseye Sunday, on a case of fraud against Abiodun Agbele, an ally of the State Governor , Ayodele Fayose, before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama,Abuja.
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Agbele and Fayose
- Sunday, a manager and Branch Head of the Zenith Bank Plc., Akure, whose evidence started on October 27, 2016, maintained that the sum of N1,219,490,000 that was conveyed by two private aircraft from Abuja to Akure, was handed over to him by Agbele.
- “The money was mostly in N1,000 notes while the rest were in N500 bills. Agbele gave us the instruction to transfer the money to different accounts. The money was paid into De Privateer Limited, Spotless investment Limited and Ayodele Fayose’s account, “ Sunday said.
- The witness, while reading from exhibit AA1B stated that, N100 million was credited to Spotless Investments;N219.490million was credited to De Privateer Limited; another N300 million was credited to De Privateer Limited; another N200 million was credited to De Privateer Limited; N200million was also credited to De Privateer Ltd; N137million was credited to Ayodele Fayose’s account and the balance of N263 million was taken by Abiodun Agbele to Ado Ekiti.
- “I saw Senator Musiliu Obanikoro come down from the aircraft to speak with Agbele, “ he said.
- Under cross-examination by Agbele’s counsel, Mike Ozekome, Sunday maintained that he had never met the first defendant and had never discussed any money matters with him prior to June 2014.
- “I got worried when I saw the huge amount of money conveyed by the aircraft that day. It took us 10 working days to count the money and each day, the uncounted sum was stored in the strong room as ‘boxed’ cash,” said Sunday.
- Asked whether he reported the transaction as suspicious to any authority, the witness said he did not because it was not his job to do so.
- The case has been adjourned to November 17, 2016 for further hearing.
- Agbele is facing an 11-count charge for allegedly diverting N4.6 billion from the office of the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki.
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