The operatives of the anti-graft agency have recovered mind-boggling raw cash in the home of a top military official indicted in the arms deal largesse.
former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Olusola Amosu
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) said yesterday that $117,000 cash was seized from the Lagos home of a former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Olusola Amosu.
The air chief is among the retired military officers being quizzed in connection with the alleged mismanagement of the $2.1 billion arms purchase cash.
EFCC spokesman Wilson Uwujaren stated this on the sideline of the meeting between the EFCC and a coalition of civil society groups, led by Olanrewaju Suraj, in Lagos.
EFCC’s Deputy Director, Operations, Iliyasu Kwarbai, also said the anti-graft agency might have recovered around $5 million from “looters”.
He did not give the details.
Yesterday’s meeting was a follow up to Tuesday’s pro-EFCC protest in Abuja, where civil society organisations expressed support for the EFCC’s anti-corruption battle.
Acting EFCC Chairman Ibrahim Magu reiterated his position that some senior lawyers were blocking the government’s anti-corruption drive.
He told the civil rights groups that “what is urgent now is to focus our attention on those areas which I consider as constituting stumbling blocks to successful prosecution of the war."
Source: The Nation