The EFCC, yesterday revealed that the fourth defendant (Veronica Onyegbula) in the ongoing N 24 billion police pension scam trial, during interrogation claimed that she made $544,000 from sales of sachet water.
Veronica Onyegbula is standing trial alongside: Esai Dangabar; Ahmed Inuwa Wada; Atiku Abubakar Kigo; Sani Habila Zira; Uzoma Attang and Christian Madubuike on criminal charges bordering on conspiracy and criminal breach of trust, after they allegedly conspired and sequentially withdrew money from the Police Pension Fund (PPF) in an account domiciled at First Bank of Nigeria and shared it among themselves.
During hearing of the case at an FCT high court yesterday, one of the prosecuting witnesses and an operative of the EFCC, Rukayya Ibrahim, told the court that during interrogation, the accused informed the agency that she made the huge sum of money from her sachet water business. Rukayya said this while while giving evidence in the trial within trial requested by counsel to Onyegbula, Barrister Ernest Ikeji.
Led in evidence by prosecution counsel, Barrister Leke Atolagbe, Rukkaya told the court that all the statements made by Onyegbula were voluntarily made under a cordial interactive session and not under duress as being alleged by her counsel.
The presiding judge, Justice Husseini Baba-Yusuf, adjourned the trial within trial to today at the instance of the prosecution counsel.
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