Ongoing investigation into massive fraud in the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency (NAMA) by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has revealed how a top official amassed about N2billion in his account.
Information available to ORDERPAPER.NG confirmed that the EFCC has also picked up a former Managing Director of the agency, Mr. Nnamdi Udoh and up to eight serving top officials said to be connected with the sleaze perpetuated under him and incumbent MD, Mr. Ibrahim Abdusalam who has been in custody of the anti-graft commission for over two weeks.
Knowledgeable sources have also told ORDERPAPER.NG that the EFCC is set to arraign the NAMA officials in court soon following mind-boggling revelations by those so far picked up for interrogation.
Recall that ORDERPAPER.NG had exclusively reported how both Abdulsalam and Udoh single-handedly signed off payments of over N3 billion on questionable contracts between 2013 and 2015, breaching civil service rules on approval limits in the process.
Part of the disclosures to EFCC operatives by the detained NAMA officials as exclusively gathered by ORDERPAPER.NG is that the top official who is a General Manager in the Finance and Accounts department, apart from having N2billion in his account also has strings of petrol stations and properties in Lagos and other parts of the country.
The official who is from the South-west part of the country was also said to have explained to interrogating officials how the incumbent MD set off attention from his personal finances including bank accounts by instructing payments for himself to be transferred to off-shore accounts linked to his family members.
It was when EFCC officials were unable to trace any suspicious amount of money to Abdusalam personally that they picked up the said General Manager who revealed how the sleaze in the agency was being perpetrated including how the MD had set up a decoy from himself whenever investigations arose.
ORDERPAPER.NG also gathered that the EFCC searchlight on NAMA was instigated by several petitions from insiders who had petitioned the Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, who in turn turned in loads of documents to the anti-graft agency for further investigations and possible prosecution of indicted officials.
