Emerging report, revealed that the former Petroleum Minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke, will soon arrive Nigeria to clear her name, immediately the United Kingdom, UK, court gives her clearance to leave London.
This report came in, based on the information by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, revealing how senior Officers of the Military, Police, as well as the Department of State Security Services, DSS, allegedly benefited from the $115 million bribe shared by Diezani, to compromise the 2015 general elections.
The document containing the names of the beneficiaries, was tendered on Thursday, before Justice Mohammed Rilwan Aikawa, of a Federal High Court, in Lagos, by the anti-graft agency, through its Lawyer, Rotimi Oyedepo.
In the document, which was said to have been recovered from Belgore, it was stated that the Resident Assistant Inspector-General of Police, in Kwara State, at the time of the election, received N1 million cash.
The document further revealed that, while the Commissioner of Police in Kwara State at the time received N10 million cash, the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Operations, got N2 million cash.
The Assistant Commissioners of Police in charge of Operations and Administration in Kwara State, were also said to have received N1 million cash each.
Also listed as beneficiaries of the funds in Kwara State were: OC Mopol and “his men”, who got N7 million; 21c Mopol and his men in the State, who got N10 million, and the Director of the State Security Services and his men, who got N2.5 million.
The Military in Kwara State, was also said to have been bribed with N50 million, while other security agencies, including the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, and the Federal Road Safety Corps, got N20 million.
At Thursday’s proceedings, the EFCC also exhibited another document titled, “Kwara State”, that was equally recovered from Belgore, showing the list of other beneficiaries from the State.
The document revealed those that benefited in the sharing of the sum of N155, 220,000, and the breakdown of what they got.
Among them were: 15 Electoral Officers, who allegedly received N250,000 each, 15 Supervisors that got N100,000 each, and the State Returning Officer, who got N1 million.
The two documents were tendered by the EFCC’s Lawyer, Oyedepo, and were admitted as exhibits by the court, in the absence of any objections from the defence Lawyers.
Giving evidence on the documents, an investigator with the anti-graft agency, Usman Zakari, revealed that the document was recovered from Belgore, in the course of investigation.
Zakari, who was the second witness to be called by the EFCC in the matter, also drew the court’s attention to the silk’s endorsement on the document titled, “Security and Transportation per State”, which reads: “Document supplied by me, Mohammed Dele Belgore (SAN).” Zakari told the court that investigations by his team, revealed that the money was disbursed in cash to the beneficiaries.
“My Lord, the mode of payment, as contained in Exhibit 7, is cash payment. The payments were not done through any financial institution”, he said.
Justice Aikawa, later entertained arguments from Belgore’s Lawyer, Ebun Shofunde, SAN, on an application seeking the dismissal of the charges against his client, on the premise that the EFCC failed to attach an affidavit showing that it had concluded investigation in the case, before bringing it to the court.
Ruling on the application has been fixed for July 7.
