A final
warning has been issued by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC to
top politicians’ in-connection with the stealing of huge sums of public funds
to come out of their hiding.
The warning was
borne out of the refusal by many of the key players of the Jonathan’s
administration to honour several invitations extended to them by the commission
to clear their names against huge sums of money traced to them and their
cronies ahead of the last general elections.
Top on the
list of those on the run, who are being expected by the EFCC to return and
account for huge sums of money traced to them are two former ministers of
finance and justice, a former northern governor and PDP chieftain and a
one-time Comptroller General of Customs.
Apart from the former customs officer,
who is said to have made away with funds belonging to the agency, the rest have
been fingered in the mismanagement of the $2.1billion cash meant for the
procurement of arms to fight insurgents in the Northeast.
One of the
former ministers is hiding away in Dubai while two others are believed to be
holing away in the Scandinavian region under the guise of studying in order to
evade prosecution for depriving the federal government of a huge sum of
oil-related funds.
One of the
former ministers, who reportedly coordinated the sharing of a huge sum of N3.1
billion ahead of the last election, sneaked out of Nigeria at the weekend
apparently to avoid being arrested and questioned for her role in the looting.
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