Emefiele: I was pressured to offer $600k bribe, witness tells court

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A prosecution witness, Victor Onyejiuwa, in the on-going trial of the former governor of Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Godwin Emefiele, yesterday, narrated before the Lagos State Special Offences Court, sitting in Ikeja, how he was pressured to pay $600,000 for the award of a contract.

Meanwhile, Justice Rahman Oshodi granted the request by Emefiele’s counsel, Olakekan Ojo, SAN, to file a notice of leave to appeal his decision deferring ruling on the court’s jurisdiction to hear the matter.

Onyejiuwa told the court that his company, provided information and communication technologies assistance to the apex bank between 2014 and 2019.He added that sometime in 2017, his company was awarded an “enterprise storage and servers” contract by the CBN. He said: “After the contract had been executed, I was accosted by the director, who insisted that the management was requesting something from the transaction.

 

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