Nigeria’s former Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Steve Oronsaye has been roped into the controversial N2.8 Billio loot from the pension funds..
This was even as two top managers of Fidelity Bank Plc have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (INEC) in connection to the loot, even as the principal accuse, Abdulrasheed Maina has disappeared into thin air.
The bank managers; the Group Head of Private Banking, Danjuma Zubairu, and an account officer, Abubakar Gwambe were picked up for allegedly assisting the former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, to launder stolen pension funds.
Maina, who was alleged to have committed the offence along with Steve Orobsaye, has been declared wanted by the EFCC as he disappeared after the EFCC had filed charges against him for stealing billions of pension funds through a phoney biometric exercise.
Zubairu and Gwambe, who work in the Abuja Central Business District Business Unit of Fidelity Bank, were arrested yesterday by the EFCC operatives following fresh evidence that they are managing proxy accounts for Maina.
The accounts is said to have over time, witnessed massive in-flow of slush funds, include two corporate and three individual accounts.
The first individual account, opened in the name of Abdullahi Faizer, had a turnover of N1.5 billion, while the other operated in the name of Nafisatu Aliyu, recorded a turnover of over N100 million. [myad]
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