$2.1 Billion Arms Scandal: The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is set to prosecute one of the former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chairmen, Alhaji Haliru Mohammed and his son . . .
The economic and financial crimes agency of the Nigerian government, EFCC, is set for the prosecution of a former chairman of the PDP, and ex-minister of defense, Haliru Bello Mohammed, and his son, Abbah Mohammed, for their alleged role in the diversion of funds meant for the procurement of arms in the office of the National Security Adviser (NSA).
The arms procurement was supposed to be used to supply adequate military hardware, munitions, light arms and heavy artillery for the prosecution of the internecine war against Islamic insurgency in Nigeria’s northeast where the Boko Haram held sway during the Jonathan administration.
The Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) reportedly and allegedly diverted the arms procurement funds to political and other usages through political chieftains of the PDP during the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan.
Photo: L-R . Haliru Mohammed & Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan during Jonathan’s presidency.
The EFCC has already filed charges against the duo at a Federal High Court, Abuja.
Though the matter is yet to be assigned to a specific judge, the former minister and his son are likely to be docked on a 4-count money laundering charge on Tuesday, December 29 or Wednesday December 30, a source at the anti-graft agency told PREMIUM TIMES.
Abbah Mohammed is alleged to have received N600m from ONSA in the name of Bam Properties.
Legal Report is set to cover this legal and judicial findings as they unfold in the Federal High Court which will sit in Abuja.
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