he Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has extended its ongoing investigation into the $2.1bn arms procurement scandal to the office of former Vice-President Namadi Sambo, our Sources has learnt.
It was gathered on Monday that the EFCC operatives were looking into the office of the former Vice President because of some transactions that linked the office to that of the former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.).
There was a report two weeks ago that Destra Investment, a company owned by the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, allegedly paid N25m to a former special assistant to Sambo, Abba Dabo, on December 16, 2014.
The commission is currently investigating N1.4bn found in the account of Metuh’s company.
Out of the N1.4bn, N400m was alleged to have been paid by the Office of the NSA.
A top EFCC source, who confided in The PUNCH, said the former VP’s office was being investigated because some of the funds disbursed by the former NSA had to do with the financing of the PDP presidential campaign in the North.
It was learnt that the office of the former VP coordinated the PDP campaign in many parts of the North and that some of the funds were sourced from the ONSA.
The source explained that virtually all the arms of government had one reason or the other to interact with the ONSA because of its strategic nature in the last administration.
It was further learnt that the ONSA was always directed to take care of emergency cases in the previous government.
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