Alleged ₦110.4bn Kogi Fraud: Witness Narrates How Kogi State Internal Revenue Service Paid Over ₦1bn as Commission to Philip Kumar

The trial of former Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Adoza Bello, continued on Friday, January 16, 2026, before Justice Maryanne Anineh of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, High Court, Maitama, Abuja, with a prosecution witness narrating how the Kogi State Internal Revenue Service, KIRS, allegedly paid over ₦1.16 billion as “commission” into a Sterling Bank account belonging to one Philip Kumar within eight months in 2019. The witness, Prosecution Witness 9 (PW9), David Ajoma, a compliance officer with Sterling Bank, told the court that the payments, which spanned from January to August 2019, wer…

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Source	EFCC
Collection	Anti-corruption and elections
Kind	Document
Publisher	Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)
Date	2026-01-16
Type	press-release
Found at	https://www.efcc.gov.ng/news/alleged-1104bn-kogi-fraud-witness-narrates-how-kogi-state-internal-revenue-service-paid-over-1bn-as-
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Alleged ₦110.4bn Kogi Fraud: Witness Narrates How Kogi State Internal Revenue Service Paid Over ₦1bn as Commission to Philip Kumar. EFCC, 2026. Vero Archive, record efcc:news:13776.