EFCC grabs Fayose's multimillion-naira houses in Lagos, Abuja
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has grabbed a few properties said to have a place with Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State.
It was learnt that the properties situated in the highbrow regions of Lagos and Abuja were seized as a feature of examinations concerning the N1.219bn the senator professedly got from the Office of the National Security Adviser when Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd) held influence, through a previous Minister of State for Defense, Musiliu Obanikoro, and also a few kickbacks he (Fayose) purportedly got from the Ekiti State Government contractual workers.
The counter unit office has likewise tested a previous Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Chief Olu Falae, on his affirmed part in the $15bn arms trick.
Falae was flame broiled by specialists at the commission's office on Thursday.
Examiners let one know of our journalists that the seized houses having a place with Fayose were supposedly obtained with stolen stores and the EFCC conjured the Assets Forfeiture provision to grab the properties in accordance with Sections 28 and 34 of the EFCC (Establishment Act) 2004 and Section 13(1) of the Federal High Court Act, 2004.
The seizure came not exactly a month after the senator's three Zenith Bank records were solidified by the counter unit organization.
One of our reporters, who went to two of the properties on 32 Yedseram Street and 44 Osun River Crescent, Maitama, Abuja, watched the engravings 'EFCC, Keep Off' on the wall.
As indicated by court records documented by the EFCC, the property on Osun River Crescent was purchased by Fayose for the sake of his London-based sister, Mrs. Moji Ladeji.
The representative supposedly pulled down the structure of one of the Abuja properties and began building another one.
The two properties, which are uncompleted structures, were said to be worth over N470m.
Sunday PUNCH learned that the properties in Lagos were four duplexes situated at Plot 100 Tiamiyu Savage Street, Victoria Island. The four duplexes cost $1.3m (N364m) each.
They were purportedly purchased through an organization, JJ Technical.
The EFCC had in a 10-passage counter-sworn statement removed to by Tosin Two bo blamed Fayose for utilizing the returns of wrongdoing to buy properties.
The testimony read to a limited extent, "Aside from deceitfully holding the total of N1, 219,490,000 being a piece of the N4, 745,000,000 stolen from the treasury of the Federal Government through the Office of the National Security Adviser, the candidate (Fayose) has likewise gotten delight in type of kickbacks from different contractual workers with the Ekiti State Government, for example, Samchese Nigeria Ltd, Tender Branch Concept Nig. Ltd, Hoff Concept Ltd, and Caliber Consulting Ltd.
"The candidate (Fayose) got these kickbacks and satisfaction through Still Earth Ltd and Signatory Nigeria Limited. Thusly, the candidate (Fayose) taught the Still Earth Ltd and Signator Nigeria Limited to utilize the assets to procure properties for him.
"In following the candidate's guideline, Still Earth Limited and Signator Nigeria Limited gained properties for the candidate (Fayose) for the sake of an organization known as J.J Technical Services Limited having a place with the candidate (Fayose) and his better half (Feyisetan).
"That the candidate (Fayose) additionally utilized the name of one Mrs. Moji Ladeji (the candidate's sister) to secure a property arranged at 44, Osun Crescent, Maitama Abuja, from the returns of the affirmed offenses of accepting delight and kickbacks."
In his response, be that as it may, Fayose said all properties connected to him were not purchased with stolen reserves.
In an announcement by his Special Assistant on Public Communications and New Media, Lere Olayinka, the senator said any property that may be connected to him or his organization was "purchased honestly to goodness and his properties were appropriately proclaimed in his benefits affirmation frame and wellsprings of such finances were not illegal."
He said subsequent to the cash he got for his race was from genuine sources and not from the ONSA, "how the cash was spent remained his own business and not that of anybody."
Mrs. Oyin Daramola, a home operator, and proprietor of Still Earth Ltd was cited as telling specialists that she, in reality, sold the Victoria Island properties to Fayose. She said she dismisses accepting installment through contracts.
In the interim, Falae, who was tested on Thursday by the counter join the organization, had in February confessed to gathering N100m from a previous Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party's Board of Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih, amid the development to the 2015 presidential decision.
The cash was purportedly given to Falae to get his gathering, the SDP, to embrace the then President, Goodluck Jonathan, and crusade for him.
In any case, the N100m was said to have radiated from the imprest record of the ONSA domiciled in the Central Bank of Nigeria.
The cash, which Falae persuaded was said to be a piece of the N3.145bn exchanged from the record of the ONSA to the financial balance of Joint Trust Dimensions Limited, an organization purportedly possessed by the Director of Finance of the Goodluck Jonathan Campaign Organization, Senator Nenadi Usman.
On Anenih's direction, Usman was said to have moved N100m into a UBA account titled Marco Nigeria Limited with number 1000627022, which purportedly has a place with False.
Other people who purportedly got part of the asset were a previous Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode (N840m) and two previous priests, Achike Udenwa and Viola Onwuliri, who mutually got N350m in two tranches.
A specialist at the counter join organization told our reporter that Falae was flame broiled for a few hours and after that permitted to go home on the condition that he would return in the following two weeks.
The source said Falae confessed to getting the asset yet kept up that he didn't realize that the cash exuded from the ONSA.
In any case, agents were said to have shaken the 78-year-old senior statesman with crisp truths.
A criminologist said, "Boss Falae went to our office in view of a welcome. He recounted to us the account of how he got N100m in light of the direction of Anenih. In any case, our examinations uncovered that Falae just exchanged N60m to his gathering, SDP.
"The rest of the N40m was by and by pulled back by him, which implies it was not utilized for the crusade. When he was stood up to, he began speaking to us that he would not like to be confined or taken to court, so we instructed him to go and bring the N40m first.
"He said we ought to give him some time, so we have given him two weeks to go and take the cash and afterward report back to us."
Inquired as to whether the EFCC was willing to charge Falae having solidified his record, the analyst said, "Boss Falae, is a previous Permanent Secretary and Minister of Finance. It's absolutely impossible he would not have realized that the arrangement was shady.
"On the off chance that he truly needed to utilize the cash for battle, why didn't he ask that the N100m be paid into the record of the SDP? Additionally, why didn't he scrutinize the wellspring of the asset when it didn't exude from the record of the PDP? Why did he remain quiet about N40m?
"We are not deceiving any political gathering or examining the wellspring of battle assets. All we are doing is following the billions of dollars stolen from the ONSA account. When you give back the cash, you will have no issue."
Falae, while conceding in February that he gathered N100m, had said, "doubtlessly N100m was given to my gathering to support and work for (previous President Goodluck Jonathan's candidature in the 2015 decision. We utilized the cash for that reason and we adequately battled for the PDP since we didn't have presidential hopeful in the race. The cash was not for me.
"With all the cash PDP has and having put in 16 years in influence, how might I have realized that the cash was from the arms bargain? No reference was made to the arms bargain. In this way, they ought not to bring me into the arms issue."
Falae, while addressing one of our journalists on Saturday affirmed that he was welcomed by the EFCC. The senior statesman said he told the counter to join the office that he didn't gather any cash from Dasuki.
He said, "the reality of the matter is that I was welcomed by the EFCC and amid the cross-examination I let them know that I didn't gather cash from Dasuki; that the cash given to my gathering through Chief Tony Anenih was not given to me by and by but rather to my gathering, the SDP.
"I likewise let them know that the cash was chiefly utilized for the decision. I let them know it was a between gathering course of action between our gathering and the PDP and the cash was spent on the decision. I didn't know where the PDP got their cash from, it was not my business but rather the cash given to us had been spent on the race.
"I disclosed to them precisely what I said in my meeting in the daily papers."
He, in any case, declined remark on regardless of whether he was requested that return to the EFCC for further cross-examination.
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