Yesterday, the EFCC said it had recovered evidence of how money was siphoned from the account of the Office of the National Security Adviser. The alleged scam took place between April 4 and Dec. 15, 2014, when a total of N4.745bn was paid into the Diamond Bank account of Sylvan McNamara a company linked to Obanikoro’s sons, Gbolahan and Babajide.
An EFCC detective said, “Out of it, $1m was delivered to Obanikoro and he acknowledged receipt of the cash and we have recovered evidence. Also, about N2bn from the money was withdrawn by the Obanikoro sons and then flown to Ekiti State.
On June 12, 2014, barely 10 days to the Ekiti State guber election, Obanikoro and his ADC, A. O. Adewale, chartered a private jet belonging to OAS Helicopters. About N724.5m was conveyed on the plane with tail number N638MA. The plane was an HS125 jet, operated by Okin Travellers, a subsidiary of Elizade.
The plane landed at Akure at 9.38am and then went back to Lagos to get an extra N494.9m and landed at Akure at 5.57pm. Obanikoro handed the money over to one Abiodun Agbele, aka Abey, an associate of Fayose. Officials of Zenith Bank arrived at the tarmac in a bullion van to convey all the cash to the bank’s vault.
Abbey directed the bank to pay N137m into the account of Fayose with no: 1003126654 and BVN 22338867502. The bank teller dated June 26, 2014, was filled by Abbey with teller no 0556814. Abbey directed the bank to transfer N118.7m to the same account and paid in N50m cash into Fayose’s account.
On April 7, 2015, Fayose moved N300m to his fixed deposit account at Zenith Bank with no: 9013074033. On the instructions of Fayose, Abbey deposited N100m in the account of Spotless hotel, which is owned by Fayose and his wife. Abbey paid N100m into the Zenith Bank account of Spotless hotel, with number 1010170969 on June 17, 2014.
He also paid N219.5m and N300m on June 18, 2014 and June 19, 2014 respectively into his own company account with Zenith Bank marked 1013835889 while he kept a cash of N260m from the original funds…. wch he used it to pop champagne n flex girls….
