The ongoing probe of the
disbursement of the $2.1 billion arms cash by the Office of the former
National Security Adviser, ONSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki (ret’d), has led to
more startling revelations.
*EFCC Operatives
Investigators from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,
EFCC, have stumbled on an account said to belong to an army officer with
N400 million traced to the slush funds.
This comes as the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples
Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, continued to face more grilling
from his interrogators
A top source in the Commission confirmed last night that thetop
operatives probing the disbursement of the arms cash, which is now the
subject of prosecution in a High Court.
The account, domiciled in a third generation commercial bank, had
been frozen by the EFCC and efforts made to track the suspect and others
yet to be summoned.
Vanguard learned that beyond the army officer, whose name
was still being kept secret to avoid raising eyebrows, the EFCC had
identified other military personnel, who had at one time or the other
drawn money from the ONSA and was keen on getting them to account for
it.
A source said that it was as a result of the discovery of the names
of the military personnel that the EFCC formally wrote to the Defence
Headquarters to release the identified officers and men to the
Commission for questioning.
An officer with the rank of a colonel from Delta State, said to have
served as a PA to the embattled ex-NSA, had already been arrested and
detained by the EFCC for over three weeks over the discovery that he
took huge sums meant for arms procurement.
He is said to have been saddled with procurement under the former NSA
and had used his position to acquire stupendous wealth, including the
acquisition of imposing buildings in choice areas of the FCT.
Attempts to speak with the spokesman for the EFCC on the new findings
proved abortive, as he did not respond to calls by one of our
correspondents.
Meanwhile, there were indications that the operatives of the EFCC
were not in a hurry to free the embattled National Publicity Secretary
of the PDP, Chief Metuh, arrested and detained,Tuesday, by its
operatives.
More influential Nigerians on EFCC radar
Meanwhile, the acting chairman of the EFCC, Ibrahim Magu has said that more influential people will be arrested soon.
According to him: “More influential Nigerians are on the radar of the
EFCC and, in the coming weeks, they would have their days in court and
Nigerians will be kept fully abreast of the results of the Commission’s
investigations.”
