$1million Cash In Badeh’s Wardrobe Says EFCC Detective

In the ongoing trial of Alex Badeh, a former chief of defence staff, on Tuesday, a prosecution witness told the federal high court, Abuja, that his team recovered one million dollar cash from Badeh’s house. See more below

Goji Mohammed, the 15th witness,  said he was part of the EFCC team, led by Isyaku Sharu, that conducted the search in Badeh’s house in Asokoro, Abuja.

Alex Badeh is standing trial on money laundering offence he allegedly committed while serving as chief of air staff.

The witness also said the team recovered some bank documents, land documents, tax documents and few other instruments.

Mohammed disclosed that the commission received intelligence report on another property located at 6 Ogun River Street Maitama, which was found to be Badeh’s property.

He said they accessed the building by climbing the balcony, adding that the security man of the neighbouring house was invited to witness the search.

“When we climbed in, we were in the living area upstairs so we used the stairs and went to the living area downstairs and started our search from there,” he said.

“When we got to the biggest room in the house, we saw a wardrobe, on opening it, we saw a bag and on opening, it contained foreign currency.

“We saw 16 bundles of 50 US dollars notes and two sealed bundles containing 100,000 US dollars which we estimated to amount one million US dollars.

“On further counting the money in our office we discovered it was exactly one million dollars,” NAN quoted the witness as saying.

Mohammed said they also found a red box, which he could not precisely remember what was inside, but added that they also found two-way bills of furniture supplied to the building.

When the prosecution sought to tender the search warrant, the red box and the waybill as evidence, the move was objected to by the defence team.

Lasun Sanusi, counsel for the Badeh objected to the admissibility of the items, saying they were purportedly obtained from an illegal search.