N4.7bn scam: Obanikoro gave N1.7bn to Omisore – EFCC Read more at: fayorizu

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ABUJA — Detained previous Minister of State for Defense, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, yesterday, paralyzed the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, with a crisp disclosure that he gave previous Osun State Deputy Governor, Senator Iyiola Omisore, the total of N1.7 billion out of the N4.7 billion he got from troubled previous National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki, retd. The previous Nigerian Ambassador to Ghana, it was found out, made the disclosure in the wake of spending the second night in EFCC guardianship in Abuja since he landed from his base in the United States of America on Monday to deal with issues with the commission. Musiliu Obanikoro The EFCC had before struck his Lagos home and trucked away imperative records identifying with the said finance exchange. A top source in EFCC told Vanguard that Obanikoro did not, in any case, say what the cash he purportedly gave Omisore was implied for and why he was the dispatch. The source said: "The previous clergyman, Obanikoro, has been participating extremely well with our agents by giving nitty gritty data in regards to the N4.7 billion followed to him and organizations connected to his children. "Obanikoro has affirmed that he really exchanged the entirety of N1.7 billion from the NSA's Office to Senator Iyiola Omisore however did not say why he did as such and what the cash was implied for. "Obanikoro said out of N4.685 billon exchanged to Sylva McNamara Limited, the total of N3.880 billion was exchanged to both Ayodele Fayose and Senator Omisore through money and bank exchanges. "The dollar substance were given over to Fayose actually by me within the sight of some gathering pioneers and he gathered it

and took it to the room beside where we were all situated. "The area where I gave the dollars to him is called Spotless Hotel, Ado-Ekiti. One of the gathering pioneers that was available was Dr. Tope Aluko, who was then the Secretary of our gathering, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. I exchanged N1.7 billion to Omisore. The cash was paid into his record and organizations assigned by him." An EFCC best authority said the office would go full scale to get those named as having profited from the arms money. The source said: "The previous priest admitted that he never had any business dealings with Omisore and did not execute any agreement for him to warrant the exchange of the enormous aggregate of cash from the ONSA to organizations designated by him. "Omisore himself is under scrutiny and we will have a day for himself. "Obanikoro was clear in the way the exchange was completed. He didn't mince words by any stretch of the imagination. "When we get to the scaffold we will cross," the top agent said. It will be reviewed that the EFCC had in July this year captured and confined Omisore after numerous fizzled offers to get at him to answer questions identifying with the money exchange. As indicated by EFCC, N1.7 billion was followed to Omisore and three firms out of the N4.7 billion professedly washed by Obanikoro. On Tuesday, Obanikoro embroiled Governor Ayodele Fayose, whom he said got more than $5.37m for his decision. He told cross examiners that he gave Fayose $5,377,000 in real money and N1.3billion was gotten by the representative's partner, Mr. Abiodun Agbele. Obanikoro conceded that the N1.3billion was traveled to Akure airplane terminal in two contracted flights for conveyance to Agbele. The cash was sourced from the $2.1billion implied for arms buy at the ONSA. As indicated by a report by the EFCC, the assets were exchanged to different organizations as takes after: Fimex Gilt Limited (N160m)- 8/8/2014 in UBA; Metropolitan Consortium (N350m)- 9/7/14 in First Bank; Sawanara (N300m)— 1/8/14 in First Bank and Metropolitan Consortium (N350m)- 1/8/14 in First Bank. A top EFCC source said: "Preparatory discoveries have demonstrated that N1.310 billion out of the N4.745 billion from ONSA was dispatched to the three firms and the records of these three organizations have a place with Omisore. This is one reason we welcomed him for cross examination." Before Omisore was at last captured in July, the commission had through a letter, of April 7, 2016 welcomed Omisore for cross examination however he evaded them. The letter, marked by Abubakar Madaki in the interest of the Acting Chairman of EFCC, read to some extent: "The commission is exploring a charged case in which your name included conspicuously. "In perspective of the above, you are compassionately asked for to go to a meeting with the undersigned on Monday, eleventh of April 2016 at No.30, Harper Crescent, Wuse Zone 7 at10am. "Your participation in such manner is requested." Instead of respecting the welcome, Omisore composed a letter through one of his attorneys, Wole Jimi-Bada and Co. that the meeting ought to be rescheduled to Thursday, April 14, 2016. The insight said to a limited extent: "Your letter dated seventh April 2016 and tended to our customer and conveyed to his gateman at our customer's

habitation has been passed on to our chambers. "We lament to advise you that our customer voyaged quickly out of Abuja however will return by Wednesday evening. Thus and sadly, he won't have the capacity to go to the meeting booked for Monday, eleventh April 2016 as asked for in your letter under reference". In the interim, two different judges were addressed by the EFCC, yesterday, regarding join related issues. The subtle elements were, in any case, not given by the office. The two judges, Agbadu James Fishim and Justice Uwani Abba Aji, showed up before the agents in Lagos, yesterday, and put forth their expressions to the agents, as per EFCC official. Three different judges-Justices Mohammed Nasir Yunusa, Hyeladzira Ajiya Nganjiwa and Musa Haruna Kurya had before answered to the Commission on Monday and Tuesday to reply to questions postured by the office. Be that as it may, a female judge of the Federal High Court, Justice Rita Ofili-Ajumogobia, as per the EFCC has kept on disregarding the welcome reached out to her by the bonus. Discoveries demonstrated that she may be captured by the office.