Former Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Abdullahi Dikko
The federal government will any time next week declare former Minister of Justice and Attorney General Mohammed Bello Adoke and seven others wanted for alleged corruption related offences, Daily Trust learnt yesterday. The others are Major-General Sarki Yaki-Bello former head of the counter-terrorism outfit; former PDP chairman Ahmed Muazu; former Comptroller General of the Nigerian Customs Service, Abdullahi Dikko and former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina.
The others are Mr. Waripamowei Dudafa, ex-President Goodluck Jonathan’s Special Assistant on Domestic Affairs; retired Colonel Bello Fadile and a newspaper publisher. Their names are said be a long list of persons currently under investigation for alleged fraud. The list will be published next week, the source said and that many more suspects will be declared wanted in subsequent weeks. They are all suspected to have left the country to escape questioning and possible prosecution, the source said. Adoke’s name keeps popping up in connection with the $1.1 billion Malabu Oil deal in which he was allged to have helped in the payment of that amount, paid by Royal Dutch Shell and Eni, to former petroleum minister Dan Etete. Mr. Adoke was not available for comment yesterday, but a source close to him said the anti-graft agency, the EFCC was in contact with the former minister. He said he could not confirm whether Mr. Adoke was in the country at the moment. Sarkin Yaki and Fadile had worked in the office of the former NSA, retired Col Sambo Dasuki who is currently on trial for alleged fraud involving billions of naira. Sarkin Yaki and Fadile were said to have been detained in connection with the arms deal fraud. It was not clear when they were released, but sources said they are out of the country at the moment. EFCC agents recently searched the house of former Customs boss in Abuja, but he is also said to have relocated with his family to an undisclosed country. He is being investigated for alleged fraud. Former chairman of the Pension Reform Task Team, Abdulrasheed Maina has been in news for a long time for alleged pension fund fraud. The former PDP chairman Muazu is said to be in Singapore. His associates said he left Nigeria about 10 days ago, but denied he was on the run. When contacted on telephone, an associate of the former PDP chairman, Madaki Hamma dismissed the rumour about Ahmad Mu’azu going on exile. He said that the rumour is another attempt by mischief makers who are bent on tarnishing the image of the former Bauchi State governor and the immediate past PDP National Chairman Ahmad Adamu Mu’azu. “You know there are people because of their selfish interest or hatred they have for you will always cook up stories to tarnish the images of others. He only travelled for medical check-up and will be back very soon. I have been speaking to him since he left the country,” he said. Hamma who was a former Commissioner of Information in Former Governor Ahmed Mu’azu’s cabinet added that the former PDP chairman has not gone on exile or even mooted the idea of leaving Nigeria and staying away from Nigeria.
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