EFCC Goes After Ex-Permanent Secretary for Spending N1.5 Billion on GEJ Campaign
The Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is investigating a former Permanent
Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Power, Godknows Igali, after it discovered
that he allegedly spent N1.5bn for the purchase of Sports Utility Vehicles (SUV)
which were used by the campaign of the immediate past President, Goodluck
Jonathan for the 2015 presidential election.
The
Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, on Thursday, alleged that 40 SUVs
and other vehicles were recovered from an unnamed retired permanent secretary.
But quoting unnamed detectives of the EFCC, the Punch stated that the
retired permanent secretary Mohammed was referring to was Igali.
The EFCC
revealed that an artisan who was employed by Igali had tipped them off on the
vehicle in the former civil servant’s residence in Abuja.
The detective said, “He (Igali) had allegedly secured the 47 vehicles in well-guarded premises in an upscale neighbourhood of Abuja but he ran out of luck when an artisan who had come to fix a faulty utility got curious by the avalanche of state-of –the-art vehicles parked on the premises and tipped off the EFCC.
“The commission immediately commenced discreet investigation. In the course of investigation, it discovered that all the vehicles were supplied by Dilly Motors at the instance of Igali.”
Further
investigations revealed that the money used in buying the vehicles did not
emanate from Igali’s bank account but from Baseworth Insurance Brokers Limited,
a company that was under investigation in another case of an alleged diversion
of N27bn insurance premium of deceased staff of the Power Holding Company of
Nigeria.
Representatives
of Dilly Motors confessed to operatives of the EFCC during interrogation, that
the payments for the Vehicle were made by Baseworth Insurance Brokers Limited
on behalf of the permanent secretary.
The EFCC source
went on to explain how it all went down.
“N300m was paid to Dilly Motors from the account of Baseworth Insurance Brokers. Operatives of the commission were curious to determine the service which Dilly Motors rendered to Baseworth Insurance Brokers to warrant payment. Dilly Motors on interrogation allegedly admitted that the N300m was part of the N1.5bn paid by Igali for the purchase of vehicles for the Goodluck/Sambo Campaign organisation to prosecute the 2015 general election.”
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