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EFCC says Omisore got N1.3bn from Obanikoro

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8 years ago

June 23, 2016

EFCC says Omisore got N1.3bn from Obanikoro

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has again, said it has traced N1.310 billion to some company accounts allegedly belonging to a former Deputy Governor of Osun State, Senator Iyiola Omisore.

According to the EFCC, the money was part of the N4.7bn allegedly disbursed by a former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, and his two sons, Gbolahan and Babajide.

The funds was said to have been sourced from the account of the Office of the National Security Adviser, ONSA, under Sambo Dasuki.

Omisore was said to have received the money in four tranches from a company allegedly owned by the Obanikoros, Sylvan McNamara between July and August 2014, few weeks before the Osun State governorship election.

It would be recalled that the EFCC had earlier accused Omisore on receiving N600 million from the embattled former NSA, Sambo Dasuki before changing the figure to N1.9 billion.

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An EFCC detective shed more light: “On July 9, 2014, N150m was paid into the bank account of Sawanara at First Bank. On August 1, 2014, N300m was paid into Sawanara Limited.

“On August 8, 2014, about N160m was paid into the bank account of Fimex Gilt Limited domiciled at UBA. On the day of the election, August 9, 2014, N350m was paid into the First Bank account of Metropolitan Consortium.”

Omisore, like he did before, denied ever receiving any money from the ONSA.

According to him, the Federal Government was only out to nail him and other members of the opposition by all means.

He said, “I don’t know Dasuki from Adam. I never went to his office. The Federal Government is just using the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to victimise and embarrass me.

“They had said I received N600m, they later said N1.9bn, now they are saying N1.3bn. Which of these figures do they want to pin on me? They have kept shifting the goalposts at will.”

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