We counted N1.22bn Obanikoro gave Fayose for 10 days – Zenith Bank

An official of celestial point Bank, Akure Branch in Ondo State, Sunday Alade, on Mon told a Federal state supreme court in Nigerian capital however he and his colleagues within the bank took intercommunicate count the total of N1.22bn money delivered to the aides of the Ekiti State
Governor, Ayodele Fayose, by former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro in 2014.

Alade, World Health Organization continuing his testimony because the 1st prosecution witness within the current trial of Associate in Nursing aide to Fayose, Mr. Abiodun Agbele, on concealing charges, aforesaid the massive money was in N1000 and N500 bills.

Alade aforesaid underneath interrogatory by the defence counsel, Chief microphone Ozekhome (SAN), that his team exhausted the massive money, allegedly airlifted to Akure aerodrome doubly by Obanikoro, before they began investigating.

He aforesaid he “got worried” once he saw the massive consignment of money.

The banker aforesaid the investigating went on between 8am and 3pm for 10days.

The witness aforesaid, “It took U.S. ten whole days to count the cash when we tend to brought it from the Akure aerodrome. It took U.S. from 8am to 3pm daily to count the cash. Some time, the officers investigating it might take day off.”

He aforesaid the overall quantity was N1,219,490,000.

Agbele is being prosecuted together with 3 firms – Sylvan Mcnamara Ltd., First State Privateer and immaculate – on eleven counts of cash lavation involving concerning N4,685,723,000,000 allegedly taken by former National Security advisor from the account of the workplace of the National Security Agency domicile within the financial organization of Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The prosecution alleged that the suspect persons knew the N4,685,723,000,000 fashioned a part of the takings of alleged unlawful activities by Dasuki.

The prosecution conjointly alleged. that on June seventeen, 2014, Agbele, Obanikoro and different suspects (said to be at large), took N1,219,000,000 from the overall N4,685,723,000,000, once they “reasonably got to have known” that the cash was a part of takings of Dasuki’s unlawful activity.”

Earlier on Mon, Ozekhome withdrew his look for the second litigant, Sylvan Mcnamara Ltd. (a firm believed to be in hand by Obanikoro).

Alade had conjointly in his evidence-in-chief, known documents, as well as account gap packages for the accounts of Fayose, immaculate Investment and Deprivateer and statements of transactions within the accounts.

The documents were later admitted by the court conspicuous .

He told the court that Agbele gave directives on however {the money|the money|the money} was disbursed and went away with the cash balance of over N230m, that he (Agbele) allegedly took to stir Ekiti (Ekiti State Capital).