BANK OFFICIAL REVEALS HOW HE HELPED AGBELE, OBANIKORO MOVE N1.2BN FOR FAYOSE

BANK OFFICIAL REVEALS HOW HE HELPED AGBELE, OBANIKORO MOVE N1.2BN 

FOR FAYOSE

Sunday Alade Oluseye, the first prosecution witness called by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, in the trial of Mr. Abiodun Agbele, an ally of the Ekiti State Governor, has explained to

 the Federal High Court in Abuja how he aided in moving N1.2bn allegedly meant for Governor Fayose.

According to the Punch, the witness, who is the Branch head of Zenith Bank in Akure, alleged that the money was airlifted to Akure by a former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro and others in two batches.

“I first met Agbele on June 17, 2014. On that day, my zonal head, Abiodun Oshode, informed me that he recieved a message from Lawrence Akande, the Zonal Head of Oyo State Branch of Zenith Bank that a customer will be coming to the bank from the airport with cash. He said that I should arrange for our

 bullion van to be taken to the airport to convey the cash when it arrives”, Sunday said.

“After about an hour, Oshode walked to me that the customer is in the bank and I followed him to his office where he introduced Mr. Abiodun Agbele to me as the customer.

“Agbele told me that they had security details and that I should not bother about policemen since they had enough. That was how I, my Zonal Head, the bullion van driver, Agbele and his team drove to the airport.

“When we got to the airport, we waited for some minutes before the aircraft arrived. When the aircraft offloaded its passengers, one of them appeared to me to be Senator Musliu Obanikoro and the other one appeared to be his ADC, Adewale.

“Agbele walked up to them and had a discussion with them. Thereafter, he signaled me to bring the van. Bags loaded with cash were evacuated into the van and Obanikoro’s ADC, I and Agbele drove back to the bank.

“When we got to the bank, we bundle-counted the cash and it was N724,500,000. Agbele told us that more money was still coming and then, Obanikoro’s ADC left for the airport immediately.

“In the evening, all of us left for the airport a second time. After the passengers disembarked, we 

offloaded the cash bags into our bullion van and drove back to the bank to ascertain how much the cash was.

“The second tranche was N494,990,000, bringing the total about N1.219, 490,000

“We headed straight to our zonal head office where instructions were given by Agbele on how the funds were to be credited to various accounts.

“However, because of the amount involved, we needed to detail-count before crediting the accounts the next day. All these are recorded in the statements I volunteered to the EFCC.”

The case was adjourned till November 14 and 17.