The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has fixed Thursday, May 9, 2024, for the arraignment of Hadi Sirika, the former minister of Aviation, over an alleged N2.7billion.
According to reports, the former minister, alongside three others, including his daughter, Fatima, Jalal Hamma and Al-Duraq Investment Ltd, would be arraigned on a six-count amended charge before Justice Sylvanus Oriji of the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
Sirika served under the administration of former President Muhammadu Buhari.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that as part of EFCC investigations into the financial misconduct allegedly committed by the former minister, “ including fraudulent contracts awarded by the ministry under his watch, had on April 23 detained him in Abuja’’.
A source in the EFCC who pleaded anonymously told NAN, “The former minister (Sirika) was invited for questioning by investigators handling the alleged contract frauds under his watch in the ministry. He honoured the invitation and has been detained as I am talking with you,”.
The source also said that EFCC had been investigating the alleged contract frauds while the minister was in office, and he had even met with investigators before he was detained.
NAN