The anti-graft agency told the court that the fund totalling about 702million, was illegally released to Okupe by the Office of the National Security Adviser, ONSA, on the pretence that it was for “Special Services”.
In his Evidence-in-Chief, the first prosecution witness, PW-1, Mr. Osas Azonabor, who is an operative of the EFCC, told the court that sometime in 2016, the commission got intelligence that some individuals were paid by the ONSA for doing nothing. He said the investigation further disclosed that the N50m was paid into Zenith Bank account of Value Trust Investment Limited, a firm that has Okupe as its Director, adding that another N35m was paid into the account of Abraham Telecoms Nig Limited, which has Okupe as its signatory.
“He said the money was for special services and when asked to elaborate what he meant by ‘special services’, Okupe said part of the money was used to sponsor’Insight’, a programme on NTA.The witness told the court that when a letter was written to the TV station to confirm the authenticity of the document, “NTA agreed that the document emanated from them”.
“There was no payment voucher, receipt or pay slip to show evidence of payment, and when we asked him to produce staff he paid to, he couldn’t produce any”, Azonabor said.
vanguardngr What of the bullion van man, how much did u recover from him?
vanguardngr Sir what of the man with bullion van, how have u people recover from him, one sided EFCC.
vanguardngr No wonder he's against pmb
vanguardngr Birds of a feather flock together. Selective witch hunt
vanguardngr But you can’t trace any to tinubu house ....
vanguardngr So those in APC don't have such amount in their account
vanguardngr Hmmm. Next in line lol
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