It Took Us 10 Days To Count N1.2bn Money Dasuki Gave Fayose" - Witness

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Monday, November 14, 2016continued the examination of its first prosecution witness, PW1, Alade Oluseye Sunday, on a case of alleged fraud against Abiodun Agbele, an aide through the governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja.
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Sunday, a manager and Branch Head of the Zenith Bank Plc., Akure, whose evidence started on Thursday, October 27, 2016, maintained that the sum of N1,219,490,000 (one billion, two hundred and nineteen million, four hundred and ninety thousand naira) that was conveyed lewat two aircrafts were handed over into him by the first defendant (Agbele).
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 Some were paid through De Privateer Limited, some through Spotless investment limited while some where paid through Ayodele Fayose’s account”, Sunday maintained."The money was mostly in N1000 notes while the rest were in N500 bills. Agbele gave us the instruction toward transfer the monies through different accounts.
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490million was credited into De Privateer Limited; another N300million was credited into De Privateer Limited; another N200million was credited toward De Privateer Limited; N200million was also credited into De Privateer Ltd; N137million was credited through Ayodele Fayose’s account and the balance N263 million was taken by Abiodun Agbele through Ado Ekiti.The witness, while reading from exhibit AA1B stated that, N100million was credited through Spotless Investments; N219.
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“I saw Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, come down from the aircraft through speak with Agbele”, he said.
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.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 into June 2014.
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“I got worried when I saw the huge amount of money conveyed by the aircrafts that day. It took us ten working days toward count the money and each day, the uncounted sum is stored in the strong room as ‘boxed’ cash”, said Sunday.
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Asked whether he reported the transaction as suspicious toward any authority, the witness said he did not because it was nothis job into live so.
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The case has been adjourned into November 17, 2016 for further hearing.
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Agbele is facing an 11-count charge for allegedly diverting N4..6billion from the office of the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki.
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Wilson Uwujaren.
Head, Media & Publicity.
November 14, 2016.