The house of a former Governor who is now a Senator has been raided by men of the Nigerian police where they found hidden cash.
Senator Danjuma Goje
Men of the Nigeria police force have stormed the Abuja residence of
Danjuma Goje, the senator representing Gombe central, found cash in
sums of $19,000 (N5.8 million) and 4,000 Saudi riyals (N326,000).
According to reports by TheCable, they also found N18 million in
the Nigerian currency in the house. Goje who is a former Governor of
Gombe state from 2003-2011 was at the national assembly office working
on the 2017 budget when the police stormed his residence with over 40
officers.
The police is yet to issue a statement on the raid. “Our men were there for between four and five hours and they carried out a thorough search,” a source told TheCable.
TheCable learnt that officers broke down the doors and all the
boxes found in the house of the chairman of the senate appropriations
committee. They also went through all the files in the residence. The
family was said to have been traumatised.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was initially
thought to be behind the search, but the agency denied any involvement.
EFCC recently recovered $43 million, £27,000 and N23 million in a flat
in Ikoyi, Lagos state.
The police are hardly involved in this kind of search on
politicians, but it also has a special fraud unit which performs similar
functions to the EFCC.
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