Sunday Alade, Former Manager of a new generation bank in Nigeria, has revealed how he spent 10 days counting the illicit funds which belonged to former Ekiti state Governor Ayo Fayose.
Sunday revealed this in a Federal High court ditting in Ondo state, where he served as a witness against the former Governor.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is prosecuting Ayo Fayose for money laundering charges tuning up to N6.9billion during his tenure as Ekiti state Governor.
Rotimi Jacobs, legal counsel for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) led the testimony of the witness, giving room to narrate how the N1.2bn was brought to him(the banker) in an aircraft which was transferred to a bullion van to be transported to the bank for counting. The money was so much , the bullion van loaded it on two trips.
Here is a copy of the witness’s statement obtained from The Cable,
“On 17th June, 2014, I received a phone call from Lawrence Akande through Abiodun Oshode, who was my Zonal Head that a customer of the bank will be coming to make cash deposit in Akure. I was told that the customer would be coming by a flight to Akure Airport,” he said.
“After some hours, Abiodun Oshode came to my office to inform me that the said customer was in his office. I then followed him to his office where he introduced one, Biodun Agbele, to me as the bank customer. I was later instructed to prepare the cash movement team (bullion van and security) to pick the cash from the Airport.
“When the aircraft arrived, three individuals disembarked from it, two of them walked away while the third person walked to Abiodun Agbele. After a short interaction, we were left to offload the cash from the aircraft.
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“One Adewale O who introduced himself as the orderly to Senator Obanikoro led us to offload the cash. When we got to the branch, we bundle-counted the cash and it was about N744m.
“We were told there was a balance and we went back to the airport to pick the second batch from the aircraft into our bullion van. The second tranche was about N494m, making a total of N1.2bn. The money was detail-counted by the Cash and Teller Unit for 10 days before it was credited into three different accounts.”