A prosecution witness, Mr.
Johnson Ejohwemu, Wednesday, informed a Federal High Court in Abuja of how the
African Independent Television’s founder, Chief Raymond Dokpesi, allegedly paid
N6m to lodge members of the ex-councillors forum in a hotel in Abuja, in
February 2015.
Ejohwemu said he was then the
Chief Accountant of Top Rank Hotels Limited, Area 11, Garki branch, Abuja,
where the ex-councillors were lodged.
The witness was testifying as the
fourth prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of Dokpesi alongside Daar
Investment and Holdings Limited.
The EFCC is prosecuting Dokpesi
and his company on six counts bordering on the sum of N2.1bn, which they
allegedly received from the Office of the National Security Adviser between
January and March 2015.
Dokpesi and Daar Investments were
said to have received the sum of N2.12bn from ONSA, while being headed by Col.
Sambo Dasuki (retd.), as payment for a “purported contract on presidential
media initiative”.
Led by the prosecutor, Mr. Rotimi
Jacobs (SAN), on Wednesday, the fourth prosecution witness, Ejohwemu, said
Dokpesi issued to Top Rank Hotels a N6m cheque to cover the accommodation and
feeding of some former councillors, who were delegates to an event which he did
not mention.
The witness said, “I know Top
Rank Hotels Limited. I was the Chief Accountant of the hotel at Area 11 branch
in Garki Abuja from 1999 till March 2017.”
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