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Monday Osasuwa, a staff of the Central Bank of Nigeria , has told an Ikeja Special Offences Court how the former apex bank governor, Godwin Emefiele, directed him to collect three million dollars cash in tranches.
He said Emefiele was the Managing Director of Zenith Bank Plc while he was working as a dispatch rider in the bank. “I was still working in the CBN governor’s office while I was appointed as a full staff member and we usually communicated through Whatsapp and email,” he said.“I recall that in 2020, when he was outside Lagos, he called me that he would give me a number that a man had something I should collect from him and that the man would give me the number of another person.
According to him, Emefiele’s co-defendant, Henry Isioma-Omoile, lived in the residence of the former CBN governor. “I did not keep a record of transactions because the instruction he gave me was that I should collect the money and bring the money to his house.
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