A former Special Assistant to former President Goodluck
Jonathan, Dr. Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, said on Tuesday he was not
aware that over five suitcases given to him by former President
Jonathan’s Aide De Camp, Onne Adegbe, contained cash.
Dudafa denied that the suitcases were 10 in number, but admitted
they were more than five.
He was testifying during hearing in former First Lady, Patience
Jonathan’s suit before Justice Mohammed Idris of the Federal High
Court in Lagos.
Mrs. Jonathan was seeking to unfreeze her accounts with
$15.5million.
Counsel for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),
Mr. Rotimi Oyedepo, asked Dudafa during further cross examination
to confirm that Adegbe handed some bags from the President to
him.
Dudafa said: “It is part of my duties to receive gifts on behalf
of the former President and his wife.”
When Oyedepo told him that the suitcases were 10, the witness
said: “They were not 10. I think they were about five.”
Responding to a question, Dudafa said: “The bags were heavy, but
I don’t know the contents.”
When it was suggested to him that the bags contained money, he
said: “Nobody told me it was money.”
On how he came about the bags, he said: “The President called me
and said the ADC would bring bags, and that I should keep them in
his study downstairs. When the President returned, I handed the key
to him.”
Dudafa said he received “several of such bags” on the
President’s behalf.
Oyedepo asked: “Will it surprise you to know that there was
money in the bags?”
Dudafa responded: “I don’t know what were in the bags. The
President is still alive. He can explain.”
Dudafa had earlier testified that Mrs. Jonathan maintained
personal accounts in various financial institutions, and that she
had such accounts before becoming First Lady.
He admitted instructing stewards in the State House to pay
dollars into Mrs. Jonathan’s accounts.
Asked who gave the money to the stewards, he said: “Sometimes
other presidential domestic aides hand over the money. At other
times I relay such instructions as given.”
Mrs. Jonathan sued the EFCC, Skye Bank Plc and three companies –
Pluto Property and Investment Company Ltd, Seagate Property
Development and Investment Company Ltd and Trans Ocean Property and
Investment Company Ltd.
She is praying for an order restraining the defendants from
tampering with her funds in the companies’ accounts domiciled in
Skye Bank.
A former Special Assistant to former President Goodluck
Jonathan, Dr. Waripamo-Owei Dudafa, said on Tuesday he was not
aware that over five suitcases given to him by former President
Jonathan’s Aide De Camp, Onne Adegbe, contained cash.
Dudafa denied that the suitcases were 10 in number, but admitted
they were more than five.
He was testifying during hearing in former First Lady, Patience
Jonathan’s suit before Justice Mohammed Idris of the Federal High
Court in Lagos.
Mrs. Jonathan was seeking to unfreeze her accounts with
$15.5million.
Counsel for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC),
Mr. Rotimi Oyedepo, asked Dudafa during further cross examination
to confirm that Adegbe handed some bags from the President to
him.
Dudafa said: “It is part of my duties to receive gifts on behalf
of the former President and his wife.”
When Oyedepo told him that the suitcases were 10, the witness
said: “They were not 10. I think they were about five.”
Responding to a question, Dudafa said: “The bags were heavy, but
I don’t know the contents.”
When it was suggested to him that the bags contained money, he
said: “Nobody told me it was money.”
On how he came about the bags, he said: “The President called me
and said the ADC would bring bags, and that I should keep them in
his study downstairs. When the President returned, I handed the key
to him.”
Dudafa said he received “several of such bags” on the
President’s behalf.
Oyedepo asked: “Will it surprise you to know that there was
money in the bags?”
Dudafa responded: “I don’t know what were in the bags. The
President is still alive. He can explain.”
Dudafa had earlier testified that Mrs. Jonathan maintained
personal accounts in various financial institutions, and that she
had such accounts before becoming First Lady.
He admitted instructing stewards in the State House to pay
dollars into Mrs. Jonathan’s accounts.
Asked who gave the money to the stewards, he said: “Sometimes
other presidential domestic aides hand over the money. At other
times I relay such instructions as given.”
Mrs. Jonathan sued the EFCC, Skye Bank Plc and three companies –
Pluto Property and Investment Company Ltd, Seagate Property
Development and Investment Company Ltd and Trans Ocean Property and
Investment Company Ltd.
She is praying for an order restraining the defendants from
tampering with her funds in the companies’ accounts domiciled in
Skye Bank.
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