The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, last night gave
final warning to top officials implicated in looting/stealing huge sums of public funds.The anti-graft agency sent out a stern warning telling them to come out of hiding and face interrogation once and for all.
The warning was borne out of the refusal by many of the key players of Jonathan’s administration to honour several invitations extended to them by the commission to clear their names against huge sums of
money traced to them and their cronies during the last general elections.
Top on the list of those on the run are two former ministers of finance and justice, a former northern governor and PDP chieftain and a one-time Controller General of Customs. They are all expected
by the EFCC to return to Nigeria and
account for the billions of dollars traced to them.
Apart from the former customs officer,who is said to have made away with funds belonging to the agency, the rest have been fingered in the mismanagement of the $2.1billion cash meant for the
procurement of arms to fight insurgents in the Northeast.
One of the former ministers is hiding away in Dubai while two others are believed to be holing away in the Scandinavian region under the guise of studying in order to evade prosecution for depriving the federal
government of a huge sum of oil-related funds.
One of the former ministers, who
reportedly coordinated sharing of N3.1billion ahead of the last election sneaked out of Nigeria last weekend to avoid being arrested and questioned for her role in the
looting.
The EFCC is working round the clock to secure the arrest of the fleeing suspects through the involvement of Interpol and the American Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI.
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