Former Managing Director, Operations at the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), Esther Nnamdi-Ogbue is the alleged owner of $43.4m, £27,800 and N23.2m. The total cash when converted using the current rate of the Central Bank of Nigeria amounts to N11,661,314,000 recovered by the operatives of the EFCC at 7th floor of a four-bedroom apartment, Osborne Towers located at 16 Osborne Road, Ikoyi, Lagos.
She was said to have been sacked alongside other three top executives at the NNPC over the ‘missing’ petrol scandal involving Capital Oil & Gas Nigeria Limited.
Her cook, Mr. Gabel Segbedji ran away with her money and pieces of jewelry worth $6million in 2016. The cook, a national of Benin Republic, took off with the loot in a Toyota Camry car which also belonged to his boss.
Insiders revealed that a woman usually appears on a different occasion with Ghana-Must-Go bags. “She comes looking haggard, with dirty clothes but her skin didn’t quite match her outward appearance, perhaps a disguise.”
Our sources at the EFCC disclosed that: “On getting to the building, operatives met the entrance door locked. Guards at the gate explained that nobody resides in the apartment, but some persons come in and out once in a while. In compliance with the magisterial order contained in the warrant, the EFCC used minimum force to gain entrance into the apartment.”
“Monies were found in two of the four-bedroom apartment. A further search of the wardrobe by operatives in one of the rooms was found to be warehousing three fireproof cabinets disguisedly hidden behind wooden panels of the wardrobe. Upon assessing the content of the cabinets, neatly arranged were US dollars, British pound sterling, and some naira notes in sealed wrappers.”