Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Arms deal: EFCC extends probe to ex-VP Sambo

Hehe...this is former Vice-President Namadi Sambo . The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has extended its ongoing investigation into the $2.1bn arms procurement scandal to the office of former Vice-President Namadi Sambo, it has been learnt .It was gathered on Monday that the EFCC operatives were looking into the office of the former Vice President because of some transactions that linked the office to that of the former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.).There
Read morewas a report two weeks ago that Destra Investment, a company owned by the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, allegedly paid N25m to a former special assistant to Sambo, Abba Dabo, on December 16, 2014.The commission is currently investigating N1.4bn found in the account of Metuh’s company.Out of the N1.4bn, N400m was alleged to have been paid by the Office of the NSA .A top EFCC source said the former VP’s office was being investigated because some of the funds disbursed by the former NSA had to do with the financing of the PDP presidential campaign in the North.

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