Thought the identity of the former minister and son is being kept as a secret investigation reveals the money could be part of the now controversial $2.1 billion arms money.
EFCC said the bureau de change operator who gave them the information, Salisu Umaru, said:
“I was invited by EFCC and when I reported, I was shown my company’s account statement with Zenith Bank called Jabama Ada Global Nigeria
Limited in which there was an inflow of N500million on 5/2/2015 and N1billion on 16/4/2015 into the account from the Office of the National Security Adviser.
“On the inflow of N500million into my company’s account on
5/2/2015, I wish to state as follows : That on the same date
(5/2/2015), I paid the equivalent of US$2,380,952 to the son
of the minister, being the equivalent of the said N500million at
the rate of N210 per dollar.
“I do not know what he used the money for. My own business
is to buy and sell dollars. It is only the minister’s son that can
explain what the money was meant for. The minister’s son
signed and collected the said N500million.
“On the N1billion inflow into my company’s account on
16/4/2015, I wish to say the money was disbursed as follows:
$1,000,000, being the equivalent of N220million; and $
327,000 (equivalent of N72,600,000) were paid cash to the
son of the minister while the sum of N704,400,000 was
transferred to various accounts based on the instruction of the
minister’s son. He gave some of the instructions through text
messages. Some of the instructions were also received from
the father.
“I also want to state that I do not know what the N1billion was meant for and what it was used for.”
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