'How Dokpesi spent N6m on hotel accommodation, feeding' - Witness

The witness, Mr. Johnson Ejohwemu, was on Wednesday, May 24, testifying as the fourth prosecution witness in the ongoing trial of Dokpesi alongside Daar Investment and Holdings Limited.

He said Dokpesi lodged the people in the hotel in February 2015.

According to him, he was then the Chief Accountant of Top Rank Hotels Limited, Area 11, Garki branch, Abuja, where the ex-councillors were lodged.

Ejohwemu said he was the Chief Accountant of the branch of the hotel from 1999 till March 2017.

Dokpesi and his company are being prosecuted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on six counts bordering on the sum of N2.1 billion which they allegedly received from the Office of the National Security Adviser between January and March 2015.

Sambo Dasuki, the embattled ex-NSA was said to have overseen the disbursement of the funds to PDP politicians across the country for campaigns and other 'operations' ahead of the 2015 presidential election.

The EFCC accused Dokpesi and his company of money laundering and other charges relating to procurement fraud.

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Dokpesi allegedly received the sum of N2.12 billion from ONSA to push former president Goodluck Jonathan's presidential media campaigns.

Dasuki allegedly gave the money to Dokpesi as payment for a "purported contract on presidential media initiative."

The prosecution witness, Ejohwemu, who was led by the prosecutor, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs (SAN), said Dokpesi issued a cheque of N6 million to Top Rank Hotels to cover the accommodation and feeding of some former councilors.

The councilors were said to be delegates to an undisclosed event.