The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday, told the Federal High Court in Abuja that it stored over N3 billion loot recovered from former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Mr Andrew Yakubu, in iron boxes.The anti-graft agency, which made the revelation at the resumed trial of the former NNPC boss on charges bordering on money laundering, said the boxes were also sealed with iron rods.Testifying as the third prosecution witness, PW-3, a lead investigative officer from Kano zonal office of the commission, Mr Ahmed Yahaya, said the iron boxes were kept at the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, for safe-keeping.
Yakubu who was GMD of the NNPC between 2012 and 2014, was accused of stashing over N3 billion at his house in Kaduna. Meantime, at the resumed trial, the PW-3 who is a Deputy Detective Superintendent, told the court that he is also the EFCC exhibit keeper in Kano state. Led in evidence by the prosecution counsel, Mr Ben Ikhani, the witness said: “My lord I know the defendant. On February 3, 2017, at about 4:50pm, my head of operations called and informed me that a team of operatives attached to Intelligence Special Operation Section, ISOS, were coming back from Kaduna on special assignment and that they were coming back with a full cabinet safe.
