A previous Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Alhaji Abdullahi Dikko, has been captured by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, for purportedly occupying N40bn from the coffers of the NCS
Dikko, it was learnt, had been on the radar of the EFCC for a while yet his whereabouts had stayed obscure.
Be that as it may, the previous Customs supervisor touched base at the central command of the counter join organization around 10am on Thursday where he stayed until press time.
An investigator at the commission, who did not need his name in print, said, "You will review that we have been searching for Dikko for a long while. He turned himself in around 10am today (Thursday) and he is being tested more than two key charges verging on criminal intrigue, preoccupation of open assets, robbery, misuse of office and living above honest to goodness implies.
"There is additionally a further claim that he occupied over N40bn from the Customs' coffers. The assets were drawn from the returns of the seven for every penny expense of gathering and one for every penny exhaustive import supervision plan.
"He is being flame broiled over the wellspring of the assets with which he obtained the house esteemed at over N2bn situated at 1, Audu Ogbeh Street, Jabi Abuja."
The EFCC agents had on January 8, assaulted the living arrangement of the ex-Customs supervisor.
Dikko is additionally being researched over a N3bn vote spent by the NCS a couple days to the introduction of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015.
The said money, which was professedly spent on the order of the Presidency, was viewed as "ridiculously utilized" by the Customs' administration.
There are additionally issues verging on the asserted preoccupation of Customs incomes to support the battle of the Peoples Democratic Party and ex-President Goodluck Jonathan in 2011 and 2015.
After oil and assessments, the NCS is the third most elevated income producing office of the Federal Government.
In the interim, the EFCC has captured a previous legislative head of Adamawa State, Mr. James Ngilari, for his claimed part in the sharing of N450m in his state amid the development to the 2015 presidential race.
The cash was said to be a piece of the $115m (N23bn) which was supposedly disseminated by a previous Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke.
The EFCC had a week ago captured the PDP executive in Adamawa State, Joel Madaki, over the Diezani reserve.
The administrator was said to have told specialists that the cash was given over to Ngilari who was the representative at the time.
A source at the commission, nonetheless, told our reporter that Ngilari had denied accepting the N450m from Madaki.
The criminologist said, "Ngilari is being flame broiled at our Gombe office. He denied approving his previous assistants to take authority of the assets. We have acquired a confinement request and he will spend the night in care."
The EFCC likewise flame broiled a previous Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Hassan Adamu, for his claimed part in the sharing of the Diezani pay off.
It was learnt that Adamu, who was at one time Nigeria's Ambassador to the United States, landed at the workplace of the commission around 9.30 am, and was flame broiled for a few hours before he was permitted to return home.
Adamu was abroad when his name showed up as a co-signatory to the gathering of the offer of Adamawa State.
An EFCC source said, "He (Adamu) conceded his inclusion at that level yet said that the cash was taken to the administration house in a bullion van by authorities of Fidelity Bank.
"The represetative included that the head of staff to Ngilari, one Alhaji Hamman, and the bookkeeper to the Adamawa State Government House, Mrs. Aisha Waziri, numbered the cash and affirmed the figure. The twosome got to be caretakers of the assets in light of the order of their supervisor, the representative.
"He said he cleared out by then and did not know how the cash was shared neither did he by and by advantage from it. Adamu guaranteed to show up at the commission at whatever point he was in the nation to clarify his part.
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