How Badeh diverted N558m
monthly from Air Force –
Witness
March 16,
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on
Thursday opened its case against a former Chief of Defence
Staff, Air Chief Marshall Alex Badeh (retd.), before a Federal
High Court in Abuja accusing him of diverting the sum of
N558,200,000 from the account of the Nigerian Air Force
monthly throughout the period he served as the Chief of Air
Staff.
The EFCC is prosecuting Badeh alongside a firm, Iyalikam
Nigeria Limited, on 10 counts of money laundering
bordering on alleged fraudulent removal of about N3.97bn
from NAF’s account.
The anti-graft agency accused Badeh of using the fund to
buy and develop landed assets in Abuja for himself and two
sons between January and December 2013.
Badeh served as the Chief of Air Staff and later became the
Chief of Defence Staff till he retired from the military last
year.
He attended the Wednesday’s proceedings from prison and
returned there after the court session ended, as he had yet
to meet the N2bn bail conditions imposed on him by the
court.
Testifying as the first prosecution witness on Wednesday, a
former Director of Finance and Account of the Nigerian Air
Force, Air Commodore Aliyu Yishau (retd.), narrated how he
routinely helped Badeh to divert the sum of N558.2m by
converting it to its dollar equivalent.
He said he usually handed the dollar equivalent of the
money to Badeh at his official residence on monthly basis.
Yishau, who was led in evidence by the lead prosecuting
counsel, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), said he aided Badeh to
divert the money throughout the period of September 2012
and December 2013 when Badeh served as the Chief of Air
Staff.
The witness, who testified for about six hours on
Wednesday, said the NAF usually received monthly
allocations in its Capital Vote account with the Central
Bank of Nigeria in Lagos; the Overhead Vote account with
the Zenith Bank Plc and the Personnel and Emolument Vote
account with the UBA.
He said the sum of N558.2m was being drawn from the
Personnel and Emolument account as fund meant for
“general administration of the Chief of Air Staff”.
Yishau told Justice Okon Abang on Wednesday that the he
aided Badeh to acquire and develop landed assets in Abuja
with the N558.2m which was being drawn from the
Personnel Emolument account of the NAF on monthly basis.
He said the N558.2m was part of the excess in the N4bn
which the NAF received monthly in the Personnel and
Emolument account after the salaries and allowances
of permanent and temporary staff must have been paid.


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What other prove are they looking for, they should persecute this man already.
BTW is my first time to comment first.

Paid witness
Kangaroo court

Ok