Ikpe claimed that the Office of the National Security Adviser in May 2014 paid Azibaola the sum of $40m from the $1.2bn approved by Jonathan. An EFCC investigator has claimed that ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s cousin, Robert Azibaola, got $40m from the $1.2billion arms deal fraud.The investigator, David Ikpe, who stands as the 11th prosecution witness of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, made this known at the Federal High Court in Abuja on Thursday, November 30, 2017.Ikpe claimed that the Office of the National Security Adviser in May 2014 paid Azibaola the sum of $40m from the $1.2bn approved by the ex-President.Ikpe said, “In March 2014, the then NSA, Sambo Dasuki, wrote a memo to the President titled, ‘Intervention on urgent national security project’ in which he sought the approval of Mr. President for $1bn to handle a number of sub-heads including unmanned area or pipeline monitoring installations.“The NSA made an additional request for $250m in April 2014.
