President Muhammadu Buhari has reportedly given anti-graft agency,
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) orders to arrest everyone
indicted in arms procurement probe.
According to a report by Punch, the presidential panel set up to probe arms
procurement between 2007 and 2015 submitted another report to the
President, making it the third report so far submitted to the President by the
committee.
“Yes, I can confirm to you that the President received the report during the
week (last week) and he has since approved it,” an unnamed source was
quoted.
With the approval, EFCC had been empowered to go after those indicted in
the fresh report.
Another informed source revealed that; “The fraud uncovered in this fresh
report is massive. All things being equal, the government will be looking at
the possibility of making highlights of the report public this week, probably
during the Sallah break.”
“The President has directed that we explore the option of prosecuting indicted
persons immediately instead of first publicising their names thereby giving
some of them the leeway to escape justice.”
The report said efforts were already ongoing by the committee at that time
to get across to the Attorney General of the Federation, Abubakar Malami
(SAN), to discuss the prosecution of the freshly indicted persons.
Recall that a member of the House of Representatives during the Second
Republic, Dr. Junaid Mohammed, challenged Buhari to make public the
contents of the interim report of the arms probe panel.
He alleged that a “cabal” within the Presidency had convinced the President
not to make the report public because some of his trusted aides were
indicted.
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