EFCC Uncovers N5bn Lodged In Army General Daughter’s Account

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has located the sum a whooping sum of five billion naira to the account of a daughter of a retired Army General, according to th sun.

It was gathered that the young lady was an under-30, newly wedded nursing mother.

The Intelligence and Special Operations Section of the anti graft agency had unearthened the said amount. This section of the EFCC is the very same saddled with the daunting responsibility of carrying out further investigation of those indicted in the Third Interim Report of the Presidential Committee on the Audit of Defence Equipment approved by President Muhammadu Buhari in July.

A source closed to the antigrat agency revealed the lady could not be brought in due to her condition but she was interrogated for two days by the commission.

The source, also disclosed the lady who is schooling in the United Kingdom was receiving hefty sums of money in her account in London, under the name of a company, Carrington Whyte Consulting.

The company which is located at Flat 4, Grove End Gardens 33 Grove End Road NW8 9LL London, was curiously registered around June 2014 and shortly after, it began to receive the funds in throngs.

“Details of the account show that cash deposits of about N10 million were consistently paid into the account sometimes five or six times a day. The money so far deposited into that account and another in London should well be over N5 billion,” the source revealed.

The source went on to elucidate: “We had to study her last statements, juxtapose them with our findings and draw up fresh questions for her and with which we confront her next week,”.

The Audit Committee had released a report calling for the investigation of 18 serving and retired military personnel, 12 serving and retired public officials and 24 chief executive officers of companies involved in the procurement.

Some of those indicted include two former Chiefs of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. O.A. Ihejirika (Rtd) and Lt.-Gen. K.T.J. Minimah (Rtd); former Minister of State for Foreign Affairs II, Dr Nurudeen Mohammed and three former Permanent Secretaries in the Ministry of Defence, Mr. Bukar Goni Aji, Mr. Haruna Sanusi and Mr. E.O, Oyemomi, among others.