$117,000 Recovered from Ex-Air Chief Amosu's House - EFCC

  

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