Former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke

Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has detained the Resident Electoral Commissioner in Abia State, Mr. Sylvester Ezeani, for his alleged role in the N23bn ($115m) that was disbursed by a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, during the build-up to the 2015 presidential election.

According to the EFCC, the suspect allegedly received N20m while he was the REC in Cross River State during the March 28 Presidential and National Assembly elections.

An EFCC operative told our correspondent that the REC had failed to explain what the N20m was for and had thus been detained.

He said, “The REC was on Tuesday interrogated by operatives of the EFCC in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, in connection with an alleged N20million electoral scam.

“While serving in Cross River State, he was alleged to have collected the sum of N20m out of the entire N241,000,000 which was released to Cross River State from the controversial $115million lodged with Fidelity Bank Plc, by Diezani. Ezeani, who has now been redeployed in Abia State, was quizzed over his involvement in the scam. He is still in custody.”

Meanwhile, the commission also quizzed the lawmaker representing Oron federal constituency of Akwa Ibom State, Nse Bassey Ekpenyong, for his alleged involvement in a certificate forgery scam.

According to the anti-graft agency, Ekpenyong ran into trouble when a non-governmental organisation petitioned the EFCC, alleging that he committed perjury and financial crimes by submitting a forged Ordinary National Diploma/ statement of result of the Abia State Polytechnic to the Independent National Electoral Commission in the build-up to the 2015 National Assembly election.

The petitioner also alleged that Ekpenyong fraudulently obtained salaries, allowances and other financial benefits from his contrived certificate.

A detective at the commission said, “Investigations by the EFCC showed that Ekpenyong did not attend the polytechnic as alleged by the petitioner and the OND certificate did not emanate from the institution. Further investigations are ongoing on the case. Ekpenyong has been released on bail.”


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The figures these guys throw around are min boggling

wicked woman

Billions everyday

Corrupt nation.
Who will redeem us?

Kobicove:
The figures these guys throw around are min boggling

The thing tire me oooo.

ok

The ones wey una don recover before now, we no dey see the effect o.

hmmmmmmmmmmm

Sincerely i am tired of all these EFCC jamboree....
Yesterday i wanted to buy rice (two cups) since d bag i had at home was finished..
Two cups cost 160naira...i paused for a little while and asked myself 160 for two cups??
I bought rice for 60 for two cups last year.....
Pls Mr president we love your anti corruption fight, but please could you also fight inflation and destabilization of our economy... Thanks

Mtchewwwwwwww....when will the head be detained

am afraid of the monsters under my bed, get along with the voices inside my head... Do not read my comment more than once. I see ur going back to read it again

Toothless bulldog

Mtchewwwwwwwwww

[size=18pt]God Bless The EFCC

God Bless President Mohammadu Buhari

God bless The Federal Republic of Nigeria[/size]

Corruption Shareholders Everywhere

emeijeh:
Corrupt nation. Who will redeem us?

Sai Baba.

Don't believe everything said by efcc, do u know what it means to loot 223billion and no conviction .. They are joking

All diz media trier no dey tire diz administration

Mehnnnn, see figures. Corruption is sure the easy part to wealth.

Tell me, just tell me why wunt africans be mentally lazy eh OP??

This case is till the endof time


ThefakeStan

[quote author=mrkayusfit post=47711272] wicked woman



Those monies could have been used to fight ringworm in igboland but here we are some miscreants sharing among themselves meanwhile the place the money was originally meant for are presently under the yoke of kwasiokor adults and youths dieing in thousandsno wonder the notherners refused to vote for Jonathan and his group of thieves

Bolustic:
Let them call it wit
ch hunting, EFCC, please detain all the detainables. Whenever PDP or other party dislodge the present government, they should witch hunt them too, by that, the heavy rain of corruption would drastically abate in Nigeria.

I seriously concur.

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