Akpobolokemi is being arraigned for an affirmed extortion of N8.5bn executed inside NIMASA between September 5, 2014 and May 20, 2015.
Standing trial alongside him is a previous Commander of the Military Joint Task Force, Operation Pulo Shield, in the Niger Delta, Maj. Gen. Emmanuel Atewe.
Others are Kime Engozu and Josephine Otuaga.
Akpobolokemi
The blamed were said to have professedly schemed to siphon N8.5bn out of NIMASA utilizing six organizations.
Ajuwon, who started his declaration against the blamed on Tuesday under the steady gaze of a Federal High Court in Lagos, was released on Wednesday subsequent to finishing up his declaration.
The witness, a broker, had in his declaration on Tuesday described to Justice Saliu Saidu, how the denounced plotted among themselves to occupied N1.8bn out of NIMASA inside two weeks in the month of September 2014.
Equipped with the announcement of record of the Military Joint Task Force, Operation Pulo Shield, Ajuwon had told the court how an aggregate of N8.5bn was moved in five tranches from NIMASA into the record between September 3, 2014 and May 12, 2015.
He went ahead to annal how N1.8bn out of the cash was siphoned were moving same in a few tranches to Jagan Limited and different organizations.
At the continued becoming aware of the case on Wednesday, Ajuwon told the judge that Atewe and one Lt. I.M. Ogadoga were the sole signatories to the Operation Pulo Shield account.
He went ahead to tell the court that N100m was moved out of the record in two tranches of N50m for Jagan Limited on September 9, 2014.
He included that September 16, 2014, there was another outpouring of N50.5m from the Operation Pulo Shield account for Jagan Limited.
The EFCC prosecutor, Mr. Rotimi Oyedepo, looked for the request of the court to release Ajuwon upon the finish of his declaration on Wednesday.
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