Corruption Allegation: 8 Buhari’s ministers under probe – EFCC Source
No fewer than eight ex-ministers, who served under former President Muhammadu Buhari, have been reportedly invited by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over allegations bordering on corruption, according to an EFCC source.
The Informant247 learnt that the invitation letters requested the former top government officials to appear and explain how allocated funds to their ministries were spent on some designated projects when they held sway at their respective positions.
It was gathered that the letters were extended to the former ministers prior to the suspension of the chairman of the commission, Abdulrasheed Bawa.
The source also said that apart from the former minister of Women’s Affairs, Pauline Tallen, who was invited last week over alleged N2bn fraud and “part of the money allegedly diverted from the African First Lady Peace Mission Project,” about seven others have also been invited.
It would be recalled that a former minister of power, Sale Mamman, was last month arrested and detained by the commission in connection with an alleged N22 billion fraud related to power projects.
It was learnt that the immediate past minister of police affairs, Muhammad Maigari Dingyadi, has also been summoned over how the Police Trust Fund was handled, adding that Dingyadi would provide answers to allegations of purchasing refurbished vehicles for the Nigeria Police as new.
“Well, I’m not aware of the letter, I’ve not seen it. Maybe they sent it to the office, I will inquire from the office”, the minister of police affairs, Dingyadi, told one of our correspondents on the phone.
