Two Former Ministers of Goodluck Jonathan in EFCC Net over $115million Diezani Cash

Posted by Odinaka on Tue 07th Jun, 2016 - tori.ng

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Monday grilled two former ministers from Jonathan's administration who confessed to receiving multi-million naira funds from Diezani Madueke.

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Former Minister of Power, Mohammed Wakil, and Minister of Science and Technology, Abdu Bulama, who served under the past administration of President Goodluck Jonathan, were on Monday, grilled by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over the $115million public fund allegedly deployed for the 2015 general election by former petroleum minister, Diezani Alison-Madueke.

The former ministers who are currently in the custody of EFCC in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, were PDP campaign coordinators for Borno and Yobe state respectively during the 2015 presidential election. The two ministers

A source at the anti-graft agency quoted Mr. Bulama as saying that he received N450m from a former finance minister, Nenadi Usman, for use in funding the PDP presidential election in the state.

The source said, “Former Minister of Finance Nenadi Usman called and informed me to go and collect money in Fidelity Bank. A five-man committee was set up to coordinate the campaign activities in Yobe State and we received N450m.

“The money was disbursed based on a template we received from Abuja and we shared it among the three senatorial zones in the state.”

Muhammed Kadai, who was Bulama’s deputy, provided details of the sharing formula. “The money was shared according to zones. For Zone A, Abba –Gana Tata collected the sum of over N85,100,000.00, while Dr Mamu collected N73,510.000.00 on behalf of Mohammed Hassan Dambu and zone C received N70,470.000.00, through Alhaji Hassan Ibn Jaks for Dr Yarima Ngama.”

The Borno Coordinator , former Minister Wakil also confirmed he received N450m. He was quoted as saying, “I received a call from Nenadi Usman, former Minister of Finance, that N450m was sent to Fidelity bank and a template for how the disbursement of the funds will be conducted.

“Nicholas Msheliya, Peter Biye, Hon. Kudla Satumaria, Hon. Ibrahim Birma, all from southern Borno received the sum of N112, 340.000.00. Equally Hon. Kangar, through Dr. Kulima A.A received N88, 620.000.00 while Engr Mohammad Baba Kachalla, Hon. Kaamuna Khadi, Hon. Zarma Mustapha and Hon. Abdulrahman Tarab received the sum of N140,860.000.00."