Monday Osasuwa, an EFCC witness, on Monday said he received over $3 million on behalf of the former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, and was asked not to keep records.
Osasuwa stated this while giving his testimony at the Ikeja Special Offences Court in Lagos.
Osasuwa, a senior supervisor at the CBN, earlier testified as the first prosecution witness on April 12.
He was recalled after Emefiele’s lawyer, Olalekan Ojo, asked the court for permission.
During the court session, Ojo asked the witness if he had direct access to Emefiele as a senior supervisor of the CBN or when he was still a dispatch rider before his employment with the apex bank.
“Not in all cases, I do talk to him directly when he is around,” he answered.
Ojo further asked who was his direct boss to which he answered: “I did not have one direct boss; in my office we have the secretary to the former CBN governor Emefiele.”
The counsel also asked the witness if, in his appointment letter as a senior supervisor, it was stated that he was to run personal errands for his boss.
Osasuwa replied: “If my boss gives me instructions I can’t refuse.”
The witness further said it was on the grounds of the errands he ran for Emefelie that the EFCC charged him for money laundering.
“I have been carrying some dollars for him. So, the EFCC tagged it money laundering. It was based on the messages my boss sent me,” he said.
Ojo asked him if he produced any document to the EFCC showing the instructions by Emefiele.
“He advised me not to write anything down for all the money I was bringing to him,” Osasuwa answered. I did not produce any document because my boss told me not to produce any records. I will only obey my boss.
“I did not keep any records because I won’t forget it. My boss asked me not to keep records. Whenever my boss is not around, he will instruct me to give it to the second defendant,” he said.
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