The Chairman Emeritus of Daar Communications Plc, owner of AIT, Ray Power and other in the media conglomerate, Chief Raymond Dokpesi has been arrested by the officers of the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) over the alleged missing of huge security budget.
Also arrested is the former governor of Sokoto State, Attahiru Bafarawa for questioning by the security agents for allegedly receiving huge sums of money from the office of the embattled former National Security Adviser (NSA), Sambo Dasuki.
Dasuki was taken from his Asokoro home in a pre-dawn raid by the operatives of the Department of State Security Service, DSS, ahead of possible arraignment for breach of public trust and money laundering.
Sources at the EFCC said that while Dokpesi was invited for questioning for allegedly receiving over N2 billion from the office of the NSA, Bafarawa was brought in for receiving over N100 million from the same source.
An EFCC source said: “A whooping sum of N2.1 billion was traced in the office of the embattled former NSA to Dokpesi without any clearly stated reason and we want to know what he received sum huge public funds for.
“We have also traced some money to the former Sokoto governor, Bafarawa, and we need to know what he got such money from the former security adviser, for.”
Both men were taken in around midday today to join the company of no fewer than 22 other suspects, who have been linked with receiving large sums of money from the ONSA, who is likely going to stand trial with them in court. [myad]
