A Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) employee, Monday Osazuwa, on Friday, told an Ikeja Special Offences Court how the former apex bank governor, Godwin Emefiele, on different occasions, directed him to collect three million dollars cash in tranches.
Godwin Emefiele in court
I helped Emefiele to collect $3m cash – Dispatch rider
Osasuwa, while being led in evidence by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo (SAN), said he was a dispatch rider in Zenith Bank in 2001 before he joined the CBN in 2014.
Osasuwa said he joined the apex bank as a senior supervisor in 2014.
He said Emefiele was the Managing Director of Zenith Bank Plc while he was working as a dispatch rider in the bank.
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The witness said he knew Emefiele, who was his boss, while in Zenith Bank and that he later joined him at the CBN.
The witness said he was later appointed as a senior supervisor (full-time) in recording and filing documents while working in the CBN governor’s office in Lagos.
“I was still working in the CBN governor’s office when I was appointed as a full staff member and we usually communicated through WhatsApp and email.
“I function as a senior supervisor, recording and filing with other official roles.
“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.
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