The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested six senior officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps over alleged N6bn fraud.
The senior officers are currently being grilled by EFCC interrogators at the commissionโs headquarters, Jabi, Abuja, The PUNCH can confirm.
Though details of the probe are still sketchy, our correspondent gathered that the NSCDC officers were handed over to the EFCC on Monday on the order of the NSCDC Commandant General, Ahmed Audi.
Impeccable sources privy to the development but who were not authorised to speak to the press revealed that the EFCC Chairman, Ola Olukoyede, had earlier written a letter to the NSCDC CG, demanding the officersโ release for interrogation.
A source revealed, โSix senior NSCDC officers are currently in our custody. Theyโre being grilled by our investigators over alleged fraudulent activities running into over N6bn.โ
Confirming the development, another source said, โThe EFCC did not arrest the NSCDC CG, neither is he being probed. We only have six senior NSCDC officers in our custody, and theyโre being probed over alleged N6bn fraud.
ย โThe EFCC Chairman had earlier written to the NSCSC CG to provide the officers, and the CG did. Now theyโre in our custody and are being grilled by EFCC interrogators.โ
THE PUNCH
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