Officials
of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have found a whopping
N2billion to an account belonging to a former commissioner in Niger
State.
Acting EFCC Chairman, Ibrahim Magu
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has traced
additional N2billion to the United Bank for Africa account of Mr.
Kantigi Liman, a former Commissioner of Local Government in Niger State.
The suspect, Liman, may be declared wanted by the anti-graft
agency. The discovery brings to N6 billion, the funds traced to accounts
held by the politician and companies linked to him.
The Commission had weeks earlier traced N4billion to two accounts
in GTBank, both linked to Liman. The first account belongs to Sadiq Air
Travel Agency Limited and the second to Kantigi.
Sources at the Commission, however, disclosed that the politician
who was a governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party in the
2015 election has been elusive.
“He is on the run and all efforts to track him down have been futile.
“The next option left for the Commission is to declare him wanted,” the source said.
The source further disclosed that investigations so far points in
the direction that the funds were siphoned from the local government
joint account of Niger State.
EFCC desperately wants to confront him with the available evidence.
He is believed to rake in a monthly interest of over N33 million on the
fixed deposits.
-NAN
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