EFCC witnesses said that court transactions related to Kogi government accounts did not violate CBN rules

An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) witness, Olomotane Egoro, told the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court on Tuesday that transactions related to the Kogi Government House account were compliant Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) regulation.

The EFCC charged former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello and two others with 16 counts of breach of trust.

The other defendants are Umar Shuaibu Oricha and Abdulsalam Hudu.

The commission charged the defendants with criminal breach of trust in the amount of N110,446,470,089, among others.

However, the defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Egoro, a compliance officer at Access Bank Plc was cross-examined by Bello’s counsel, Joseph Daudu (SAN).

He said that there were no Post No Debit (PND) instructions for the accounts presented as evidence.

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He noted that Bello and Oricha’s names do not appear in any transaction records.

The witness confirmed that the first entry in column 14 of Exhibit A(p) reflects income of ₦20 million for the provision of educational materials.