Mrs Esther Nenadi Usman, a Former Finance Minister, was yesterday
detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, for
allegedly receiving N2.5 billion of the N4 billion taken out of the
Central Bank of Nigeria, on the orders of the ex-National Security
Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, ahead of the 2015 election.
Usman was the Director of Finance of the Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign.
Also arrested by the EFCC was a former Permanent Secretary in the
Ministry of Labour, Mr. Clement Iloh, for obtaining a questionable N316
million from public account, Vanguard reports.
It was gathered that the former minister will also answer questions
on various sums of money which were paid into her account during her
tenure as senator.
EFCC investigations revealed that N14.1 million was paid to Clement
& Bob Associates, a company in which Dr. Illoh is the sole
signatory.
It was further discovered that the sum of N49 million and N13
million were also paid into Clement & Bob Associates account from
the now defunct Subsidy Reinvestment Programme, SURE –P.
The newspaper reports that Illoh has been unable to provide
satisfactory answer on how he came about the said N316 million, in which
he has the sum of N200 million in fixed deposit and over N16 million as
balance in Zenith Bank.
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