Stanley Ani, an investigator with the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission(EFCC) at the resumed hearing of the case involving Samuel Saleh Umoru, and Philomena Chieshe, who were formerly Zonal coordinator and Revenue officer of the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) respectively, told the court that Umoru, at various times, instructed Chieshe to pay some monies into his bank account as a loan.
Umoru, and Chieshe, are both standing trial before Justice Peter Affen of the FCT High Court sitting in Maitama, Abuja, for allegedly diverting N35,480,000.00 to their personal accounts.
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In his examination-in-chief led by Ekele Iheanacho, Ani, who led the team of investigators in the case, told the court that the second defendant, Chieshe, said in her volunteered confession statement that her coordinator, Umoru, who is the first defendant had instructed her at various times to pay in some amount of monies into his personal account.
“Chieshe submitted copies of tellers showing where she deposited monies into Umoru’s (first defendant) account on his instruction and other documents showing a collection of ‘I O U’ by the first defendant from the proceeds of sales of e-facility cards”,
the witness revealed.
He further told the court that extraction of details was done on the two bank accounts statements of Chieshe and it was discovered that out of the N29,034,253.72 inflow that her Zenith Bank account received between January 2014 and February 2017, only N2,094,433.72 were legitimate earnings that came in from JAMB in terms of salary, allowances, and dividends from the cooperative society.
Ani then said a total of N26,939,820.00 were paid into the account by agents contracted by Chieshe to sell e-facility cards on her behalf.
While also giving the analysis of the second defendant’s EcoBank account statement, the witness said a total inflow of N1,768,480.00 was paid into the account by various agents who sold the JAMB e-facility cards on her behalf. He further revealed that there was no transfer made to Jamb’s revenue account as remittance, instead, almost all the monies were withdrawn through ATM.
Justice Affen adjourned the matter to June 1, for continuation of trial.
