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<\/p>\nOronsaye is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on offences bordering on stealing and obtaining money by false pretence.<\/p>\n
He is alleged to have been complicit in several contract awards during his tenure as HoS, and is being charged along with Osarenkhoe Afe on an amended 35-count charge.<\/p>\n
They had taken a plea of \u201cnot guilty\u201d.<\/p>\n
Okpocha, a relationship officer with Unity bank and the Economic and Financial Crimes\u2019 (EFCC) prosecution witness number five, said that these funds came from the Pension Transfer Fund.<\/p>\n
The witness said this during cross-examination by Oronsaye\u2019s counsel, Mr Okeanya-Ineh, SAN, that she wasn\u2019t familiar with the history of the account.<\/p>\n
\u201dIt is a government account and the only signatory I know is the HOS,\u201d she alleged..<\/p>\n
Prior to all these, she was handed a document by Okeanya-Ineh to read in part titled: \u201cApproval For Transfer Of Funds To Contingent Account From The Office Of The Head Of Service Of The Federation.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
The document was later tendered in court by the defence and admitted into evidence.<\/p>\n
Earlier, the witness was led in evidence by the EFCC prosecution Mr Oluwaleke Atolagbe, who tendered Unity bank\u2019s 46 pages documents marked as PW 5(a) and admitted into evidence.<\/p>\n
The witness had narrated how financial transactions occurred in various pages of the document in mainly 2009 and 2010.<\/p>\n
She narrated how monies were paid to some people through cheques and cash withdrawals running into millions of naira.<\/p>\n
The witness also explained during examination in chief, how page 20 of the document showed when Oronsaye made a change in the signatory to one of the accounts under investigation.<\/p>\n
The signatory to one of the accounts was changed from Sadiq Mohammed to Stephen Oronsaye , dated Nov. 22, 1999.<\/p>\n
She said that the implication of this was that from that date the signatory became that of Oronsaye.<\/p>\n
Justice Inyang Ekwo adjourned hearing in continuation of the examination until May 23.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ms Chidinma Okpocha, a witness in the trial of Steven Oronsaye, former Head of Service (HOS) said on Wednesday in the Federal High Court Abuja, that unspecified amounts, were transferred into a contingency account domiciled in Unity bank. Oronsaye is being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on offences bordering on stealing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2830,3],"tags":[12123],"class_list":["post-119650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law","category-news","tag-steven-orosanye"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/119651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}