Indications emerged at the weekend that the 27-man task force investigating the $2.1billion arms procurement scandal under the former National Security Adviser, NSA, have traced a whopping sum of N1trillion to the accounts allegedly owned by four EX- service chiefs.

The $2.1 billion is an amount budgeted for procurement of arms by the immediate past administration to fight the Boko Haram insurgency in the North East.

A highly placed source at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, told Nigerian Pilot that the task force investigating the arms deals in conjunction with the financial intelligence unit of the EFCC found about N1trillion of the missing money in the accounts of four former service chiefs. The money was allegedly paid into the military officers’ accounts domiciled in four new generation banks.

The source further said the affected service chiefs would soon be invited to explain all they know about the money found in their bank accounts as well as their involvements in the arms deals.

The former service chiefs were those in the Air Force, Navy and Army.

Apart from the Service chiefs, it was further gathered that more retired and serving military officers are also being investigated by the anti-graft agency and those found culpable would be invited for questioning.

For instance, the source explained that, “The commission has traced N400million to the account of a serving security operative. The shocking discovery was made just before the New Year.

“Efforts are still being made to trace other transactions. The motive is to go after some of these funds that are in private accounts.”
Recently, the EFCC picked up a serving Colonel and a German citizen in connection with the ongoing investigation into arms procured.

Sources said the duo are currently detained in connection with the training of 750 Special Forces in Belarus in 2015.

Another top operative of the commission said the commission had written to the Defence Headquarters and heads of the three services of the Armed Forces for the release of some personnel needed by the anti-graft agency to shed light on their roles in the arms procurement deal.

The Defence Headquarters had repeatedly said the present administration would not tolerate corruption, which it noted had retarded the development of the country.

The Acting Director, Defence Information, Brigadier General Rabe Abubakar, told our correspondent on phone that the military was fully in support of the Federal Government’s campaign against corruption.

In a related development, Nigerian Pilot gathered that the EFCC would next week invite nine prominent northerners, who were mentioned in a letter which a former chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Board of Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih, wrote to the anti-graft agency.

Anenih had in the letter explained how he shared N260millio paid into his account by the Office of the National Security Adviser, ONSA during the tenure of Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.).

He alleged that he gave N63million to a group coordinated by a former Special Assistant to former President Shehu Shagari, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai.

But Yakassai said he only got N53million not N63million from Anenih as alleged and that he used it for official purposes.

Yakassai said, “The amount being bandied about is not what was given to me. It is true Chief Anenih gave the committee of eminent persons, which I headed some funds for our assignment. The money being quoted is not what we received.

“The committee of nine persons, which I led, was given an assignment to reach out to traditional rulers on the need for them to ensure peaceful elections in their domains because there was tension prior to the 2015 general elections.

“We went round 18 states and Abuja where we met two persons in each of the states we visited. We started with the Sultan of Sokoto. We could not meet with traditional rulers in Gombe because on the day of our visit, Boko Haram attacked the town and there were reports that they were targeting the Government House, where we were at that time.

“The money the committee received was for logistics, such as transport and accommodation. We wrote a report after our assignment, which started on January 14 and ended on February 15, 2015; the records are there.”

The elder statesman said he was prepared to defend the activities of the committee when required to do so, stressing that the committee performed its assignment creditably and transparently.

Efforts to get response from the EFCC did not succeed as at the time of filling this report as calls to the mobile phone of its spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren was not picked.

Mynd44, Lalasticlacla,Seun

http://nigerianpilot.com/2-1bn-arms-probe-n1trn-found-in-4-ex-service-chiefs-accts/

Politicians don finish us....Buhari flush them all out.

Them go dance the music. Bunch of saboteurs

You don't mean it. Trilion? idonbiliv. na wao for naija o

Wonders shall never end, so even ex service chiefs are goats Could this be the reason why the army denied PMB prior to the election
And as for that goat Tanko Yakassai, his rantings about PMB after the polls confirmed to me that he had access to some yams.

I'm tired of all this. I need to hear stories of reviving our dying economy and not all this Dasukigate crap everyday!!!

Hmmm

OK wait
I pray by the power in the blood of Jesus, the Egyptians of this country that we see today, we shall see them no more
Amen
Looters of this country wealth shall perish with their families suddenly ijn

How do tanoids sleep

There is little difference between Abacha's tenure and GEJ. Both looted massively...

Do you mean recovering back our looted funds is not helping our economy or what ?

Trafford:
I'm tired of all this. I need to hear stories of reviving our dying economy and not all this Dasukigate crap everyday!!!

Trafford:
I'm tired of all this. I need to hear stories of reviving our dying economy and not all this Dasukigate crap everyday!!!

Relax, very soon our economy will bounce back when the loot from Dasukigate is recovered.

God bless you my guy...

ramdris:
There is little difference between Abacha's tenure and GEJ. Both looted massively...

And some people had the guts to call GEJ a hero. If a bank manager gives free hand to all his employees to withdraw any amount from the strong room, do we call such manager a hero or has the definition of hero changed?

Omor d league of yam eaters just dy increase in number on daily basis,haba


But why mr clueless still b free man now,he should b singing skelewu xplaining himsef in efcc custody too

Trafford:
I'm tired of all this. I need to hear stories of reviving our dying economy and not all this Dasukigate crap everyday!!!

How do you think the. FG would fund the budget? Just imagine that the 1trillion is recovered, that means we'd only have to work for 5trillion. So it is important.

Holy Mary, now I understand why many Nigerians are poor

Wicked evil men. All monies must be recovered even to the last kobo

Indications

Now u understand why all of them get pot Belle..

Lalasticlala or mynd44 should get us an acc to calculate all money being refunded or about to, so we can minus it from our budget. . We fit no Need the 2trillion loan afterall.

san316:


How do you think the. FG would fund the budget? Just imagine that the 1trillion is recovered, that means we'd only have to work for 5trillion. So it is important.

You have time to educate him, imagine the dude that paid 100M back after Efcc invited him would he have dreamt of paying 1naira if it had been that clueless man fighting corruption with technology The chief yam distributor

Yet the previous administration preached about a cashless society,but they are busy carrying/distributing heavy cash and pressurizing the economy!!
Every entity involved in the looting of our treasury should be shot by firing squad and their family members made to pay for the bullet.

What a stupid lie. 1 trillion naira na beans?

ramdris:
There is little difference between Abacha's tenure and GEJ. Both looted massively...

There's a lot of difference atleast abacha was the main culprit and tracing his loot was pretty easy but this one is just damn worst everybody just dey pack Hin own share like say na well Wey dem kom fetch water from

But that's already more than the $2.1bn they're investigating na. Where did this one come from?

Not surprising. It's the reason they all carried pot belly.

The past Service Chiefs, especially the immediate past, were shameless politicians parading as force men. They were so unprofessional and compromised whih was the reason they couldn't strategize on how to bring BH to an end.

If not for Buhari, wetin naija for don become?

Your guess is as good as mine.

politricks:
And some people had the guts to call GEJ a hero. If a bank manager gives free hand to all his employees to withdraw any amount from the strong room, do we call such manager a hero or has the definition of hero changed?

he's a hero in looting

D clueless GEJ was so desperate that he nevr bother to think about tomorrow. All dis looting and sharing took place with D hlp of his office.
I weep for dis country..

It's gonna be a party in Kirikiri. Come dance after you return my yam!