The panel set up to review the arms procurement deals within the last few years has submitted a fresh list of names for investigation to the EFCC.
The presidential panel on arms procurement between 2007 and 2014 has forwarded a fresh report to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, a The Punch report has shown.
According to the report, it was reliably gathered on Tuesday that the latest report contained a list of officers of the Nigerian Army who would be investigated by the anti-graft agency over the ongoing arms purchase probe.
The panel had, in November last year, submitted its first report to President Muhammadu Buhari, who on receiving it ordered the arrest of Dasuki.
On January 15, the Presidency said Buhari had received the second interim report and ordered the EFCC to investigate 18 serving and retired military officers, mainly from the Air Force.
It was gathered that top on the list in the latest report, forwarded to the anti-graft commission, were three former service chiefs.
A source in the commission said, “The commission now has the list of those Army officers involved in the arms deals.
“They have not started acting on it because they are still doing the one on the Nigerian Air Force.
“The commission is still treating it as a secret for now. The list is long, we learnt that there are three former service chiefs there but nobody can give you those names there.”
It was learnt that other serving and very senior retired officers of the service were also on the list.
The source said those on the list would be required to make clarifications in some areas involving the procurement of arms under the Goodluck Jonathan administration.
EFCC’s operatives were being discreet with the list said to have been received since last weekend. The Acting Chairman of the EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Magu, was a member of the panel prior to his appointment as the head of the anti-graft agency.