Reports just coming in reveal that the Abuja home of the immediate past Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Mr Abdullahi Inde Dikko, has been surrounded by stern looking mobile policemen and officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes

EFCC officials and mobile policemen have stormed the Abuja residence of former Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Mr Abdullahi Product Inde Dikko.

Vanguard reports that security operatives in two loaded trucks stormed the residence of the former customs boss at Ahmed Musa street, Jabi, Abuja.

It was gathered that the security operatives and the anti-graft agency arrived the house in Toyota Hiace trucks with registration numbers RSH 555 AB and BWA 645 GA to conduct a search of the apartment but Dikko was said to be out of the country.

The reason for the search of Dikkos’s residence might not be unconnected with his activities during his leadership of the country’s ‘prime’ revenue agency.

However, the family of the former customs boss is allegedly being held hostage by the security operatives as no one is allowed in or out of the house.

Meanwhile, one of the four armed policemen in the operation, who spoke to NAN on condition of anonymity said their presence around the house was to ensure that there was no breakdown of law and order.

A relative to the former customs boss, Mr Mohammed Usman, said that the EFCC operatives arrived at the residence at about 7.am, adding that the information at his disposal is that about seven of the operatives entered the house to search for documents.

“A team of about seven operatives of the EFCC in company with some armed policemen arrived at the residence at about 7am and have been in the house for the past five hours. From the information available to me, no search warrant was presented before the commencement of the search. As I speak to you, they are currently in my uncle’s bedroom carrying out the search in his absence,”

Usman who condemned the search because it was carried out in the absence of his uncle said: “The only people in the house at the commencement of this search and even till now are his children who are below the ages of 18.”

When Mr Wilson Uwujaren, spokesman for the anti-graft agency was contacted for confirmation, he said he had not been informed of the search on the former customs boss residence.

Dikko who hails from Katsina state was the Comptroller-General of Customs from August 17, 2009 to August, 2015. His resignation is believed to have been propelled by the emergence of President Muhammadu Buhari as the leader of the country. The former customs helmsman only served four months under Buhari before pulling the plug.

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