The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission is making frantic moves to charge two sons of the Governor of
Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido to court.
Aminu and Mustapha Lamido were flown
to Abuja in the early hours of Friday by the operatives of the commission after
their arrest in Kano on Thursday.
There are strong indications that the
anti-graft agency may charge the two brothers for fraud involving billions of
naira belonging to the people of Jigawa State.
It was learnt that the EFCC traced
about N10bn to the accounts of companies of which the governor and his two sons
were alleged to be directors and signatories to the account.
The alleged transactions took place
between 2007 and now.
The commission has been holding the
governor’s sons in relation with billions of naira belonging to the Jigawa
State Government which were traced to their accounts of companies of which they
and their father are said to be directors since Friday.
On Monday, the EFCC Head of Media and
Publicity, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed that the commission was still
grilling the suspects.
He also said that the commission was
still in custody of the two brothers because operatives involved in the
investigation were not yet through with them.
“They are still with us; they are
with us because they are still being interrogated,” Uwujaren said.
Investigation however revealed that
the commission was making painstaking efforts to ensure proper investigation
and to charge the suspect to court if culpability was established against them.
A source at the commission, who
confided in our correspondent because he was not authorized to speak on the
issue, said that the commission would take the suspects to court as soon as
they have evidence that could stand the test of the court.
“You see, the commission is
conducting a holistic investigation into this issue.
“If those conducting the
investigating do it hurriedly, and the matter gets struck out in the court,
Nigerians will say that the EFCC is doing a shoddy job.”
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Goodluck is after G7 governors well we will see 2015
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ReplyDeleteAnonymous 7:39am,u are a fool 4 mentioning Tinubu who is fighting 4 democracy since 1999,was he not arraign b4 were they able to establish any fact against him n dis man has left government 4 how long now?d reigning no 1 criminal in Nigeria now is d oga at very top who looting our money seriously n mercilessly
ReplyDeleteWe are not blind we can see and smell G7,gej and efcc we shall see 2015.
ReplyDeleteEfcc u people are mad,u are arresting innocent people while 500 billion naira misplaced between NNPC an CBN why can't u investigate that money,DOGS!!!
ReplyDeleteAll of u have problem,so 5OO billion is not money,u the same people will still complain if they start this nnpc and cbn own,like one of u said that. Tinubu is a good man,untill we all stop being sedimentall Nigeria may never be free,One person is with so much money and all of u are making such statement ,is Amachi not a G7 or whatever gov.U people call them why has he not be caught
ReplyDeleteGEJ is d biggest looter n the most corrupt president ever followed by his wife
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ReplyDeletePls don't blame EFCC ,it is assigned to do the job.its only investigate and prosecute nd judge by the court.Allah ya azurtamu ta hanya mai kyau
ReplyDeleteWhy this selective justice, what about those other PDP's sons that were indicted for money laundering and oil subsidy scam. The alamisaigha of this world. Na way o, uncle Jonah this will surely boomerang o.
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