PHOTO: $1million found inside former Chief of Defence Staff Wardrobe, Alex Badeh-Witness

The corruption case against former Chief of Defence Staff Alex Badeh, got more interesting earlier today, as prosecution witness in the on-going trial, alleged that the total sum of $1million was found inside a red box in the wardrobe of former Defence Chief....

after a search was conducted in the building located in Asokoro Areas of Abuja...The witness was quoted to have said:

“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,” 

“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.”

Lasun Sanusi, who is the counsel to the defendant, challenged the admissibility of the ‘illegally’ gotten items from the search....telling the Presiding Judge that:

 “My Lord, the witness had earlier confirmed that when they were to conduct search on the defendant’s house at Asokoro, they took him along to witness the search, why was this other one different,”

“It is on record that the defendant was still in detention when the purported search was done in his house at Maitama which is a clear violation of the law.

“My Lord, we are not against the court admitting the search warrant as evidence but we vehemently oppose to the admissibility of the other items.”

But the prosecution lawyer, Rotimi Jacobs differed with him, saying:

 “This permission covers the person to whom the warrant is addressed and a neighbour within the neighbourhood the property is located.”