"I collected N102million for NIMASA Executives without doing any contract for the organization' -Witness tells court

A witness in the ongoing trial of an Executive Director, (Maritime Labour and Cabotage) of the Nigerian Maritime Administration Safety Agency, NIMASA, Calistus Nwabueze Obi and the personal assistant to the former Director General of the agency, Patrick Akpobolokemi, Alu Dismas, told a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos yesterday May 16th, how his company received the sum of N102, 000,000 from NIMASA without executing any contract.

The witness Kolomi Mohammed, a Bureau de Change operator, made the disclosure when he was asked to explain the financial transactions which occurred on August 5, 2014 and January 21 and 22, 2015 between his company and NIMASA.

In those three days it was discovered that a total sum of N102, 000,000 was transferred from the account of Committee on Intelligence Gathering in NIMASA to the account of Kostan Mega Concept Limited, a company belonging to the witness.