About 20 top officials of the previous administration, who were alleged
to have played active roles in the disappearance of $2 billion meant for
the procurement of arms and ammunition for the country’s armed forces
were taken into custody by the Economic and Finance Crimes Commission,
EFCC, for questioning.
Some of the officials taken into custody are the former Minister of
State for Finance, Ambassador Bashir Yuguda and a former Director of
Finance in the Office of the National Security Adviser, Shuaibu Salisu.
The former minister, who worked under Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, was still
being questioned by operatives of the EFCC in Abuja as at last night.
Shuaibu Salisu was said to have been arrested and detained for a while over various payments that he allegedly made.
A source in the EFCC confirmed that the sons of many top-ranking PDP
officials were also found to have received various sums of money under
the guise of supplying weapons for the armed forces but did not deliver.
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