{"id":123720,"date":"2024-07-10T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/how-emefiele-moved-funds-to-wife-witness"},"modified":"2024-07-10T09:26:52","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T08:26:52","slug":"how-emefiele-moved-funds-to-wife-witness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/how-emefiele-moved-funds-to-wife-witness","title":{"rendered":"How Emefiele moved funds to wife \u2013 Witness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>An Assistant Manager with Zenith Bank Plc, Mrs Ifeoma Ogbonnaya, has narrated how Mr Godwin Emefiele, the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, moved funds to his wife, Mrs Margaret Emefiele.<\/p>\n<p>Ogbonnaya told an Ikeja Special Offences Court on Tuesday how Emefiele used the bank to move multimillion naira to his wife.<\/p>\n<p>Emefiele is standing trial over abuse of office and alleged $4.5 billion and N2.8 billion fraud while in office.<\/p>\n<p>Ogbonnaya, the fifth prosecution witness, was led in evidence by counsel to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr Rotimi Oyedepo, SAN.<\/p>\n<p>She told the court how Emefiele used Zenith Bank to transfer millions of naira in tranches to his wife through various companies.<\/p>\n<p>Ogbonnaya said the companies that received the cash flow were Amswing Resources and Solution, Limelight Dimensional Service Ltd., Omec Support Service Ltd., and Mango Farm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLimelight manages the facilities of CBN, located at Alakija and all transactions pertaining to power and fixing things that are not working was always done by the vendors,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The witness, who also doubles as a Business Relationship Manager, joined the bank in 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Ogbonnaya said she never had direct dealings with the ex-CBN governor but received instructions from his wife to transfer cash from CBN into their private companies through Zenith Bank account.<\/p>\n<p>She said apart from Mrs Emefiele she also received instructions from two other people, one Mr John Ogah and one Mr Opeyemi Oludimu, who worked for the Emefieles but is now late.<\/p>\n<p>The witness, however, said that she managed the various company accounts through which the multimillion naira was sent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMrs Margaret Emefiele, the ex-CBN governor\u2019s wife, is the direct beneficiary of the accounts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe companies sent transfer instructions to my email and Margaret is the beneficial owner of the accounts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll transactions made in the accounts were confirmed by Mrs Emefiele before they were processed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe sends transfer instructions directly to my official email address with Zenith Bank or sends two other persons to act on her behalf but I still receive approval from her,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The witness also told the court that from March 9 to 11, 2015, the accounts received cash flow from the apex bank to the tune of N18.9 million and N1.8 million, respectively<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Feb. 22, 2021, there was a cash flow of N43 million from CBN; on July 21, 2022, there was a cash flow of N37.3 million; on Oct. 21, 2022, there was a credit flow of N44.6 million, on May 10, 2023, there was a cash flow of N93.1 million from CBN, among others,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The witness further said that she usually communicated with Emefiele\u2019s wife through email, phone calls and WhatsApp on transactions that were to be carried out on the accounts before processing them.<\/p>\n<p>She said the bundles of documents that entailed the various transactions were printed from her office desktop computer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. An Assistant Manager with Zenith Bank Plc, Mrs Ifeoma Ogbonnaya, has narrated how Mr Godwin Emefiele, the former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, moved funds to his wife, Mrs Margaret Emefiele. 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