The Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission is making frantic moves to charge two sons of the
Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido to court.
Aminu and Mustapha Lamido were
flown to Abuja in the early hours of Friday by the operatives of the commission
after their arrest in Kano on Thursday.
There are strong indications
that the anti-graft agency may charge the two brothers for fraud involving
billions of naira belonging to the people of Jigawa State.
It was learnt that the EFCC
traced about N10bn to the accounts of companies of which the governor and his
two sons were alleged to be directors and signatories to the account.
The alleged transactions took
place between 2007 and now.
The commission has been holding
the governor’s sons in relation with billions of naira belonging to the Jigawa
State Government which were traced to their accounts of companies of which they
and their father are said to be directors since Friday.
On Monday, the EFCC Head of
Media and Publicity, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed that the commission was
still grilling the suspects.
He also said that the commission
was still in custody of the two brothers because operatives involved in the
investigation were not yet through with them.
“They are still with us; they
are with us because they are still being interrogated,” Uwujaren said.
Investigation however revealed
that the commission was making painstaking efforts to ensure proper
investigation and to charge the suspect to court if culpability was established
against them.
A source at the commission, who
confided in our correspondent because he was not authorized to speak on
the
issue, said that the commission would take the suspects to court as soon as
they have evidence that could stand the test of the court.
“You see, the commission is
conducting a holistic investigation into this issue.
“If those conducting the
investigating do it hurriedly, and the matter gets struck out in the court,
Nigerians will say that the EFCC is doing a shoddy job.”
-Punch
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