The Economic and Financial Commission (EFCC) has presented a list before the federal high court Lagos, detailing how senior police, army and DSS officers benefited from the $115 million “bribe” disbursed by Diezani Madueke, former Minister of Petroleum Resources, for the 2015 general election.
The revelation came during Thursday’s hearing of the corruption case of Dele Belgore, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), who is being tried on allegations of collecting N450 million bribe from Allison-Madueke to induce authorities in Kwara State to rig the governorship election.
Belgore is standing trial alongside Abubakar Suleiman, former Minister of National Planning.
Usman Zakari, an EFCC investigator who presented the list before the court while appearing as a prosecution witness in the case, said Belgore had volunteered the list to the commission in the course of investigation.
Zakari told the court that during interrogation, Belgore admitted that all the payments were made in cash.
Below is a table of what each official received, according to the document presented before Justice R.M Aikawa of the federal high court, Lagos.
The document was titled, ‘Security and Transportation per State’, and Zakari pointed out Belgore’s endorsement on the list thus: “Document supplied by me, Mohammed Dele Belgore (SAN).”
| S/N | Designation | Amount received in cash |
| 1 | Resident Assistant Inspector-General of Police in Kwara State | N1 million |
| 2 | Commissioner of Police Kwara State at the time | N10 million |
| 3 | Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of Operations | N2 million |
| 4 | Assistant Commissioners of Police in charge of operations | N1 million |
| 5 | Assistant Commissioners of Police in charge of administration | N1 million |
| 6 | Kwara State Resident Electoral Commissioner for the 2015 election | N10 million |
| 7 | INEC Administrative Secretary in Kwara State | N5 million |
| 8 | INEC Head of Department, Operations and “his boys” | N5 million |
| 9 | “other officers” shared among themselves | N2 million |
| 10 | Kwara State OC Mopol and “his men” | N7 million |
| 11 | 21C Mopol and men | N10 million |
| 12 | DSS Director and his men | N2.5 million |
| 13 | The military | N50 million |
| 14 | Other security agencies including the NSCDC and FRSC | N20 million |
Also, Zakari presented another document before the court, which he said was also recovered from Belgore.
The second document, simply titled ‘Kwara State’, contains beneficiaries of a sum of N155,220,000 and the breakdown of what they got.
They include 15 electoral officers who each received N250,000, 15 supervisors who were given N100,000 each, the state Returning Officer who got N1 million, among others.
Rotimi Oyedepo, counsel to the EFCC, tendered the two documents and they were admitted in evidence and marked exhibits 7 and 7A against the accused persons, Belgore and Suleiman.
Their counsels, Ebun Shofunde (SAN) and Olatunji Ayanlaja (SAN), raised no objection.
The case was subsequently adjourned to July 7 for continuation of hearing.
According to the EFCC, the actions of the accused persons contravened sections 1(a), 16(d), 15(2)(d) and 18(a) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) (Amendment) Act, 2012; and punishable under sections 15(3)(4), and 16(2)(b) of the same Act.
The third accused person, Allison-Madueke, was described in the charge sheet as “still at large”.