EFCC moves seized $43m, £27,000, N23m to CBN

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WHO owns the huge cash recovered from an apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos on Wednesday?
The knotty question remained unanswered yesterday, but the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) moved the cash to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Besides, it obtained a court order for the temporary seizure of the $43million, N23million and £27,000;

  • quizzed a former Managing Director of the Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC), who was suspected of being the owner of the cash; and planned to review the Close Circuit Television (CCTV) of the building to determine the identity of a “haggard-looking” woman who is said to have been bringing in sacks (suspected to be holding the cash) into the apartment.
The apartment on 6, Osborne Road, Ikoyi is under surveillance by EFCC operatives.
Although three highly-placed Nigerians have been linked with the seized cash, they have all denied having anything to do with the money.
They are a former National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alh. Adamu Mua’zu; former PPMC boss, Esther Nnamdi-Ogbue, and the Senator representing Lagos West Senatorial District, Solomon Adeola.
The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) yesterday sacked Nnamdi-Ogbue as part of the organisation’s ongoing reforms. But there were speculations that she may have been fired over the “missing” 130 million litres of fuel kept with Capital Oil and Gas Limited.
The EFCC, after a tip-off, recovered the money from an apartment in House 16, Osborne Road in Ikoyi on Lagos Island.
The anti-graft commission yesterday secured a court order of interim forfeiture of the cash.
The EFCC quizzed Nnamdi-Ogbue yesterday in Abuja over the cash.
Prior to her grilling, EFCC operatives raided her Maitama District home in Abuja.
She denied owning the $43.4million.
It was gathered that the invitation of the ex-NNPC director followed a report that she is a tenant in House 16.

The Nation.

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