Six senior officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over alleged N6bn fraud.
According to The PUNCH, the six senior officers are currently being grilled by EFCC interrogators at the commission’s headquarters, Jabi, Abuja.
The source stated that the NSCDC officers were handed over to the EFCC on Monday. This was on the orders of the NSCDC Commandant General, Ahmed Audi.
Impeccable sources privy to the development but who were not authorized to speak to the press confirmed the development. They revealed that the EFCC Chairman, Ola Olukoyede, had earlier written a letter to the NSCDC CG. Demanding the affected six officers be released for interrogation.
A source in EFCC revealed, “Six senior NSCDC officers are currently in our custody. They’re being grilled by our investigators over alleged fraudulent activities running into over N6bn,” The PUNCH stated.
Confirming the development, another source said, “The EFCC did not arrest the NSCDC CG, neither is he being probed. We only have six senior NSCDC officers in our custody. And they’re being probed over alleged N6bn fraud.
“The EFCC Chairman had earlier written to the NSCSC CG to provide the officers, and the CG did. Now, they’re in our custody and are being grilled by EFCC interrogators,” the source said.
However, the spokesperson for the EFCC, Dele Oyewale, could not be reached for comments on Monday. This is even as phone calls and text messages to his phone lines were not responded to nor returned.
Meanwhile, when contacted for comments, the spokesperson for the NSCDC, Babawale Afolabi, said he was not aware of the development, The PUNCH stated.
“I’m not aware of this,” Afolabi said in a terse WhatsApp message sent to our correspondent on Monday,” The PUNCH report.
