Subsidy: Witness says marketer obtained N963.7m fraudulently

An Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC’s witness, Mr. Ihechukwu Ireogbu, yesterday, alleged that an oil marketer, Rowaye Jubril, forged some documents which he used to collect N963.7 million subsidy payment from the Federal Government.
Ireogbu, who is the Managing Director of MGI Inspection Ltd, made this allegation while he was giving witness before Justice Lateefa Okunnu at the resumed trial of Jubril before of an Ikeja High Court.
Jubril was arraigned alongside his company, Brila Energy Ltd., by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
Ireogbu, who was being cross-examined by the counsel of the defendant, Mr. Raphael Oluyede, admitted that his firm had a prior business relationship with the defendant.
He insisted that the company did not participate in the inspection of the 13,500 metric tonnes of Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, purportedly imported by Jubril.
The witness also said that the claim by the defendant that the company inspected the product between January 26 and 27, 2011, at off-shore Cotonou in Benin Republic, was false.
Ireogbu said he instructed one Felix Iweka, a staff of Port Cargo Services, which is a subsidiary of the company, to go to Cotonou to carry out the inspection.
According to him, Iweka later confirmed that he did not inspect ship-to-ship transfer of the products between the mother vessel, MT Overseas Lima and the daughter vessel, MT Delphina.

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