Former President Goodluck Jonathan’s aide, Mr Umar Tahir, on Tuesday, told the Federal High Court, Abuja, that an ex-Minister, Taminu Turaki, released N200 million out of the N359 million for a security sensitisation programme in parts of the country in 2014.
NAN reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission had, on May 4, arraigned the former minister alongside his former Special Assistant, Sampson Okpetu, and two firms; Samtee Essentials Limited and Pasco Investment Limited, on 16 counts of money laundering. The witness, who was led in evidence by EFCC’s counsel, Mohammed Abubakar, said part of the advice he offered Jonathan was to let his office organise “a sensitisation town hall meetings across the 19 states and the six geo-political zones which the Vice-President and top members of the government would attend.”
Tahir said he subsequently held meetings with Turaki after which he sent a budget of N359m for the programme to the minister on Sept. 2, 2014.
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