What did the
Chief Servant of Niger State do with the sum of N3.6 billion cash it realised
from the sales of its 16 out of its 26 percent stake in North South Power Ltd
and the N2 billion it got from the Ecological Fund it got from the Presidency
in 2015?
The Economic
and Financial Crimes Commission believes the cash from the two sources were
laundered by the former governor and used for the prosecution of the 2015
governorship election to enthrone one of its own protégés.
For that
reason, the EFCC has detained the former governor of Niger State; Dr. Babangida
Aliyu and questioned him on all that he knows about the missing cash.
Vanguard
sources at the EFCC confirmed that the ‘Chief Servant’, as he is fondly
addressed, was detained since Tuesday at the headquarters of the EFCC around 10
am on Tuesday as he honoured an invitation by the anti-graft agency.
One of the top sources said that ex-governor
Aliyu had been answering series of questions from a crack team of detectives
since his arrival at the EFCC compound and was not about to be released as at
the time of filing the report.
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