A contractor, Olugbenga Obadina who is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC for receiving payments from the Office of the National Security Adviser, (NSA) on November 28, 2015, without any contractual agreement, on Monday, May 20, 2024, told the Federal High Court, Abuja, presided over by Justice Nnamdi Dimg alt=‘Contractor admits receiving N2.17b from office of NSA for no Project’ class=‘img-responsive text-center’ style=‘margin: auto;’ba that the payments made to his company, Almond Projects Limited, was neither meant for installation of power plant in Yobe State nor for any power project whatsoever in the state.
A statement released by the EFCC says Obadina and his company, Almond Projects Limited, first and second defendants respectively, are being prosecuted by the EFCC on an eight-count charge bordering on conspiracy, official corruption and money laundering to the tune of N2, 17,190,000 (Two Billion, Seventeen Million, One Hundred and Ninety Thousand Naira), being payment they allegedly received from the Office of the National Security Adviser under Colonel Sambo Dasuki (Rtd) on November 28, 2015 for doing nothing, neither was he scheduled to do anything on behalf of the federal government.
‘’Under cross-examination based on Obadina’s evidence-in-chief, prosecution counsel, Ibrahim Buba asked the defendant to identify the project for which payments were made to his company. Specifically, he was also asked to state if the payment was for the purpose of installing a power plant or any power project in Yobe State, to which he answered in the negative.
My lord, with reference to payments in the document that is written, particularly to the Almond project, no site was mentioned in all of the descriptions. No location was mentioned in any of the descriptions my lord,” the EFCC statement quotes him as saying
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