October 27, 2016 Ade Adesomoju, Abuja

‎The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Thursday called its first prosecution witness before a Federal High Court in Abuja in the trial of an aide of Governor Ayo Fayose of Ekiti State, Mr. Abiodun Agbele, who is being prosecuted for money laundering charges.

‎The first prosecution witness, Oluseye Alade, who is an official of Zenith Bank Plc, gave a breakdown of how the sum of N1.2bn allegedly airlifted to Akure by a former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro on June 17, 2016, was distributed by Agbele.

He did not disclose where the aircraft flew from.

But he said he was informed by a colleague of his in Ibadan to wait for the arrival of the aircraft.

The EFCC had on August 3, 2016 aarraigned Agbele before Justice Nnamdi Dimgba of the Federal High on 11 counts of money laundering involving about N4,685,723,000,000.

The money was allegedly taken by former National Security Adviser from the account of the office of the NSA domicile in the Central Bank of Nigeria.

The prosecution alleged that on June 17, 2014, Agbele, Obanikoro and other suspects (said to be at large), took N1,219,000,000 from the total N4,685,723,000,000, when they “reasonably ought to have known” that the money was part of proceeds of Dasuki’s unlawful activity.”

Led in evidence by the prosecuting counsel, Mr. Wahab Shittu, the witness who is the Branch Head of the Zenith Bank in Akure gave details of how the N1.2bn was disbursed on the instruction of Agbele.

He said the money was airlifted to Akure by Obanikoro and others in two batches.
He said the money was moved from the airport to the bank by a bullion van on the two occasions of the arrival of the aircraft.”

He said, “I first met Agbele on June 17, 2014. On that day, my zonal head, Abiodun Oshode, informed me that he recieved a message from Lawrence Akande, the Zonal Head of Oyo State Branch of Zenith Bank that a customer will be coming to the bank from the airport with cash. He said that I should arrange for our bullion van to be taken to the airport to convey the cash when it arrives.

“After about an hour, Oshode walked to me that the customer is in the bank and I followed him to his office where he introduced Mr. Abiodun Agbele to me as the customer.

“Agbele told me that they had security details and that I should not bother about policemen since they had enough. That was how I, my Zonal Head, the bullion van driver, Agbele and his team drove to the airport.

“When we got to the airport, we waited for some minutes before the aircraft arrived. When the aircraft offloaded its passengers, one of them appeared to me to be Senator Musliu Obanikoro and the other one appeared to be his ADC, Adewale.

“Agbele walked up to them and had a discussion with them. Thereafter, he signaled me to bring the van. Bags loaded with cash were evacuated into the van and Obanikoro’s ADC, I and Agbele drove back to the bank.

“When we got to the bank, we bundle-counted the cash and it was N724,500,000. Agbele told us that more money was still coming and then, Obanikoro’s ADC left for the airport immediately.

“In the evening, all of us left for the airport a second time. After the passengers disembarked, we offloaded the cash bags into our bullion van and drove back to the bank to ascertain how much the cash was.

“The second tranche was N494,990,000, bringing the total about N1.219, 490,000
“We headed straight to our zonal head office where instructions were given by Agbele on how the funds were to be credited to various accounts.

“However, because of the amount involved, we needed to detail-count before crediting the accounts the next day. All these are recorded in the statements I volunteered to the EFCC.”

The four statements earlier made by the witness to the EFCC were tendered by the prosecuting counsel and admitted by the court as exhibits.

http://punchng.com/obanikoro-others-airlifted-n1-2bn-cash-fayose-bank-official/

I am tired of all these politicians!

'koro and Fayose should have just done 'transfer', whatever they are trying to avoid by evading 'paper trail' is now out in the open.

E DON RED FOR FAYOSE

FAYOSE in 2018 when your 2 terms of office will come to an end please just decamp to APC, If not DASUKI, FFK, NNAMDI KANU and orders arrest. will be a very very child play compare to your case.

yarimo:
FAYOSE in 2018 when your 2 terms of office will come to an end please just decamp to APC, If not DASUKI, FFK, NNAMDI KANU and orders arrest. will be a very very child play compare to your case.

fayose fayose fayose, how many times I call you
your own is about to done. . .

Bankers have joined the witch-hunt also . . . This change is infectious oh . . .

yarimo:
FAYOSE in 2018 when your 2 terms of office will come to an end please just decamp to APC, If not DASUKI, FFK, NNAMDI KANU and orders arrest will be a very very child play compare to your case.

We want to make sure his case is concluded before his immunity is lifted so he can be arrested one minute after his successor takes oath of office.

Fayose's skeletons are just piling up day after day.

SalomonKane:
Money! Money!! Money!!! And more money we learn was stolen when Oga Jona was president.

God! How some people capitalise on the stupidity and ineptitude of that man beats my imagination.

To think we still have nitwits here who still sing the praise of that foolish man knocks me out whenever I read such foolish posts.

But still, I'm still going to ask, when will we see the first convicted person as evidence of PMB's anti-corruption crusade?.

Baba, it is one of the wonders of the world.

with jugdes under scrutiny..well me see how they escape this one...

Money! Money!! Money!!! And more money we learn was stolen when Oga Jona was president.

God! How some people capitalise on the stupidity and ineptitude of that man beats my imagination.

To think we still have nitwits here who still sing the praise of that foolish man knocks me out whenever I read such foolish posts.

But still, I'm still going to ask, when will we see the first convicted person as evidence of PMB's anti-corruption crusade?.

I have a feeling Fayose will not be the one to hand over government when his tenure is over come 2018..he will leave the country long before handing over..I just hope there wont be a repeat of umoru Dikko affair of 1983

Zenith Bank again! Hmmmmmm #smh.

SalomonKane:
Money! Money!! Money!!! And more money we learn was stolen when Oga Jona was president.

God! How some people capitalise on the stupidity and ineptitude of that man beats my imagination.

To think we still have nitwits here who still sing the praise of that foolish man knocks me out whenever I read such foolish posts.

But still, I'm still going to ask, when will we see the first convicted person as evidence of PMB's anti-corruption crusade?.

We just need 2 calm down, cases like dis are very difficult 2 prove. Also, considering d amounts involved, dey have 2 be careful b4 convicting such ppl. We will surely get dere.

All we've been hearing is how PDP members transferred funds for 2015 Elections. Most Nigerians have turned to Buhari's pet as to no body has ever asked how the APC got their funds for the elections. In Nigeria of today, who ever doesn't work for Buhari's emergence is corrupt. Is this how it ought to be in Nigeria of human being and not of animals?

They airlifted the money as if it was going for pilgrimage...

What a wicked world...





And it wasn't even Zimbabwean Dollars or Somalian Shilling...

yarimo:
FAYOSE in 2018 when your 2 terms of office will come to an end please just decamp to APC, If not DASUKI, FFK, NNAMDI KANU and orders arrest. will be a very very child play compare to your case.

I can't wait for the day this meat-cutting miscreant governor of deluded stomach infrastructure inhabitants of deprived Ekiti State will be sentenced to 20 years imprison without option of fine

Tout of a governor

PDP.....NEVER again

Everything PDP reek corruption, corruption...... CORRUPTION!

Fayose is Jailed bound as long as this case goes after his tenure as the self proclaimed freedom fighter stomach infrastructure Governor!!!

With all this evidences
You will never see someone going to jail.
by next month u will never hear abt this case again.
Media trials!

Nigeria, we hail thee..

They will do whatsoever to implicate Fayose by all means

Thief

I weep for my country.

A man steals plantain and we strip and disgrace him but a man steals billions and we come here to defend him.

They have used some people's destiny to play Nairabet

Sibrah:
Bankers have joined the witch-hunt also . . .
This change is infectious oh . . .

Don't u know zombie virus is vely vely contagious.
Have nt u watched walking dead?

Small time now he will come & start kneeling down

They will still defend this.

dead brains.


The stupeed Fayose said they saw his future like Jesus and decided to persecute him.

No religious Christian Leader condemned the statement because he is our brother.

A woman was sentenced to 90 years imprisonment for five point Something million naira, and with all this big big money they keep calling we have not heard of a single conviction, na wah o

Shakara don' end o.....waiting patiently for corrupt defenders...a won werey Dede.

989900D:
'koro and Fayose should have just done 'transfer', whatever they are trying to avoid by evading 'paper trail' is now out in the open.

Transfer was easier to trace.

Just one SQL QUERY, every transaction will be revealed.

AnglicanProphet:
All we've been hearing is how PDP members transferred funds for 2015 Elections. Most Nigerians have turned to Buhari's pet as to no body has ever asked how the APC got their funds for the elections. In Nigeria of today, who ever doesn't work for Buhari's emergence is corrupt. Is this how it ought to be in Nigeria of human being and not of animals?

Shut up!!