Ambassador Bashir Yuguda, former Minister
of state, has been arrested and is being interrogated by operatives of the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over allegations
of large sums of money allegedly transferred to him between December 2014 and
May 2015 while he was in office.
A source at EFCC said the former Minister who
was picked up by 4pm today, is being interrogated for allegedly receiving some
huge amount of money from the office of the former National Security Adviser,
Colonel Sambo Dasuki, who is being investigated over a two billion dollars arms
deal.
The source said some of the monies allegedly traced to Bashir's account include N1.2 billion Naira paid to him by the office of the NSA through a company and for unclear reasons. He is also allegedly to have received N775 million from the office of the Accountant General of the Federation for unclear reasons. He is also alleged to have received another N1.275 billion from a conglomerate, Stallion Group, during the last presidential election campaign.
The source said some of the monies allegedly traced to Bashir's account include N1.2 billion Naira paid to him by the office of the NSA through a company and for unclear reasons. He is also allegedly to have received N775 million from the office of the Accountant General of the Federation for unclear reasons. He is also alleged to have received another N1.275 billion from a conglomerate, Stallion Group, during the last presidential election campaign.
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