The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has detained the former Minister of finance, Ambassador Bashir Yuguda over his alleged involvement in 23billion bribery poll. Ambassador Yuguda in his statement admitted collecting a total of N450 million in his capacity as a senior executive of PDP chieftain in his State.
The EFCC said in a statement that the ex-minister who is a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, allegedly diverted N450m out of the money.
The money, which was distributed through Fidelity Bank Plc, was said to have been used in bribing officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission during the 2015 presidential election.
The statement read in part, “The EFCC has detained the former Minister finance, Amb. Bashir Yuguda, over his involvement in 23bn bribery poll. Amb. Yuguda in his statement admitted collecting a total of N450m in his capacity as a senior executive of the PDP chieftain in his state.”
Yuguda had been arrested by the EFCC last year after he allegedly received suspicious payments from a former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.), who has been embroiled in the scam.
Yuguda allegedly received N1.5bn from the former NSA’s office through an unnamed company, for unstated purpose.
He also alleged received N1.275bn from Stallion Group during the campaign for the last general election.
Another N775m was also allegedly paid to him from the office of the Accountant General of the Federation for unstated purpose.
All the monies were allegedly paid to him between December 2014 and May, 2015. Click to signup for FREE news updates, latest information and hottest gists everyday
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The EFCC has continually shown that she is acting a script. both APC and PDP spent Billions of naira during the 2015 elections. why will the efcc be pork nosing into the affairs of the PDP and still keeping quite about the APC. This is a very dangerous precedence that will degenerate into something else.
ReplyDeleteWhoever is responsible for the information on that board the criminal is holding has no sense of legibility. Imagin the info written in green csn hardly be read. If you guys don't know how to do the simplest things like this, how could you do the big things and issues right. Ok, after this confirmation, what is next, his he going to be hanged, shot like regular criminals, or jail for life, we need to know because these government thieves are the cause of these hardships in the country now. People should stop pitying these thieves when the arms of law is about to perform on of the options for their purnisment ss mentioned above. Then Nigeria will be a better country to live.
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