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EXCLUSIVE: EFCC arrests sacked NIMASA boss over alleged multibillion naira fraud

Patrick Akpobolokemim former NIMASA Boss

How NIMASA paid me N97.6m for doing nothing –Witness

byPress Release
May 11, 2016
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A prosecution witness, Wakili Dauda, in the ongoing trial of a former Director-General of the Nigerian Maritime and Safety Agency (NIMASA), Patrick Akpobolokemi, and six others, has told a Lagos State High Court how the agency paid him the sum of N96, 764, 689.00million( Nine-six Million Seven Hundred and Sixty-four Thousand Six Hundred and Eighty-Nine Naira) for doing nothing.

Testifying before Justice R.1.B Adebiyi on Monday, Mr. Dauda, owner of Kofa Father Nigeria Limited, a Bureau De Change, stated that the sum of N96, 764, 689.00million was paid into his account, on October 30, 2014, in two tranches of N35, 688,000.00 and N61, 076,680.00 by the NIMASA committee on Voluntary International Maritime Organisation Member State Audit Scheme (VIMSAS) project.

Speaking through an interpreter, Ibrahim AbdulHakeem, a registrar with a Magistrate Court, Mr. Dauda court said he was shocked when he received the money.

According to him, “I don’t have any customer with NIMASA and I don’t have any transaction with NIMASA either. I have never received any contract award from the Committee of VIMSAS in NIMASA.

‘‘One Mohammed Danliti collected my account number, saying that his customer wanted to deposit money in it. I bought dollars with this money and gave it to Mohammed Danliti. He mentioned the name of the customer as Captain Bala.

‘‘I don’t know anything about NIMASA. My company has two directors: Wakili Dahiru Dauda and me.’’

At the resumed hearing on Tuesday, sixth prosecuting witness, Yahaya Muhammad Yusuf, aka Danliti, explained his involvement in the diversion of N754,740,680 (Seven Hundred and Fifty Four Million, Seven Hundred and Forty Thousand, Six Hundred and Eighty Naira), describing both Wakili Dauda and Tashiru Garuba as the owners of Kofa Fada Nigeria Limited.

Led in evidence by prosecuting counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo, Mr. Yusuf, a Bureau de Change operator, said, ‘‘I know Captain Bala Agaba as a customer who came to buy and sell money to me in dollars.

‘‘Wakili Dauda gave me money in dollars, which I gave to Captain Bala Agaba. He paid the money into Kofa Fada’s account.

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‘‘I forwarded the account number to Captain Bala because he is a good customer to me.

According to him, Kofa Fada did not know or have any contract with NIMASA.

While being cross-examined by the defence, Mr. Yusuf, who also confirmed that he gave money to Captain Bala in dollars, added, ‘‘Captain Bala knows that I do not have a licence to operate (as Bureau de Operator), but we have been doing business together for the past 10 years. I work for myself. I gave Kofa Fada’s account number to Captain Bala.’’

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Mr. Akpobolokemi and six others are alleged to have diverted the sum of N754, 740,680 meant for the implementation of Voluntary International Maritime Organisation Member State Audit Scheme (VIMSAS) at NIMASA.

The others are Captain Ezekiel Agaba, Ekene Nwakuche, Governor Amechee Juan, Vincent Udoye, Captain Adegboyega Sahib Olopoenia and a company, Gama Marine Nigeria Limited.

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