By Innocent Anaba
An investigator, Usman Zakari, who appeared as the second prosecution witness for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, before a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, narrated to the court how former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Jumoke Akinjide and others allegedly took delivery of a cash sum of N650m March in 2015.
Akinjide and two others are being prosecuted by the EFCC over alleged fraud.
According to Zakari, Akinjide and two others collected the N650m cash at the Dugbe branch of new generation bank in Ibadan, Oyo State on the standing instruction of a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke.
The witness said his investigation revealed that the N650m was part of a total sum of N23bn which Diezani warehoused in the bank.
He said he found that the N23bn was the naira equivalent of a total of…
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