The Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been interrogating its director general and 24
other officials over withdrawal of $219,000.00 from the account of the Nigerian
Technical Cooperation Fund (NTCF).
Accoding to LEADERSHIP an
aggrieved insider staff of the agency had petitioned the EFCC that the DG of
the agency had allegedly connived with 24 other Nigerian officials in the
parastatal and illegally siphoned the amount for personal use.
The money, which was meant
to provide some development projects for some African countries in the 2013
fiscal year, is jointly managed by the African Development Bank and the NTCF
and domiciled in the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.
An EFCC source said based
on the series of petitions received by the agency, its operatives, who posed as
auditors and spent days to scrutinise the accounts of the agency, discovered
the alleged fraud.
According to the sources in
separate statements said “It was clear to use that the money in question had been
withdrawn by the officials but what we want to know is on what the money was
used for.
“Having established a prima
facie case of illegal withdrawal, we invited the DG and the 24 staff and they
were interrogated between Tuesday and Thursday and all of them made useful
statements to the commission.
“They were all admitted to
administrative bail having accepted to refund the money to the last kobo and we
have asked them to report back on Thursday.”
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