A witness in the ongoing trial of an aide to
the governor of Ekiti state Ayodele Fayose
on Monday, November 14, told the court
that it took Zenith Bank 10 days to count
money collected from the office of the
national security adviser.
Ozehkhome, the defence counsel, the first
prosecution witness said the governor’s
aide, Abiodun Agbele handed N1.2 billion
over to him.
Alade Sunday, a branch head at Zenith
Bank in Akure, Ekiti state told the court
the money was conveyed via two aircraft.
Sunday said: “The money was mostly in
N1000 notes while the rest were in N500
bills. Agbele gave us the instruction to
transfer the monies to different accounts.”
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The witness said some of the money were
paid into De Privateer Limited, some into
Spotless investment limited while some
where paid into Governor Fayose’s
account.
Reading from an exhibit admitted by the
court, Sunday said, N100million was
credited to Spotless
Investments; N219.490million was credited
to De Privateer Limited; another
N300million was credited to De Privateer
Limited; N200million was credited to De
Privateer Limited; N200million was also
credited to De Privateer Ltd; N137million
was credited to Ayodele Fayose’s account
and the balance N263 million was taken
by Abiodun Agbele to Ado Ekiti.
“I saw Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, come
down from the aircraft to speak with
Agbele,” Sunday said.
The witness also said he had never met the
Agbele before then and had also never
discussed any money matters with him
prior to June 2014.
“I got worried when I saw the huge amount
of money conveyed by the aircrafts that
day. It took us ten working days to count
the money and each day, the uncounted
sum is stored in the strong room as
‘boxed’ cash,” he said.
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When asked by the defence counsel
whether he reported the transaction as
suspicious to any authority, the witness
said he did not because it was not his job
to do so.
Having listened to the first prosecution
witness’ testimony, the judge over the
matter Nnamdi Dimgba adjourned
to Thursday, November 17, 2016 for further
hearing.
Agbele is facing an 11-count charge for
allegedly diverting N4.6billion from the
office of the former National Security
Adviser, Sambo Dasuk
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