The
acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)
Ibrahim Magu yesterday said the anti-graft agency was searching for
Jamila Tangaza, a former head of Abuja Geographic Information System
(AGIS).
He said the commission is on the
lookout for Tangaza, who was being investigated over allegations of
financial crimes following reports that she attempted to jump bail and
escape the country.
She is being investigated over alleged
financial malfeasance to the tune of about N800 million when she served
as the director of Abuja AGIS and Senior Special Assistant to the
former Federal Capital Territory Minister (FCT), Bala Mohammed.
In an interview in Abuja yesterday,
Magu said he could not confirm she was caught trying to leave the
country, because the EFCC had not received formal notification from the
Nigeria Immigration Service.
He however said attempts to reach her mobile phone numbers had been unsuccessful.
He also said Tangaza was on administrative bail noting that her surety who stood for her bail has been summoned by the EFCC.
He also said the EFCC had furnished
the Customs, Immigration Service, DSS and other International policing
organizations like Interpol and FBI a list of people being investigated
and prosecuted by the agency. He added that no matter where such persons
run to they would still be within the grasp of the anti-graft agency.
Magu also said former FCT minister,
Bala Mohammed is still in custody, while a former Aviation Minister,
Femi Fani-Kayode, is in good health, contrary to some media reports. Fa
Fani-Kayode is to be arraigned on new fraud charges on Nov. 10, EFCC’s
spokesman, Mr Wilson Uwujaren, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN).
He said the EFCC investigators were
still questioning Bala Mohammed to explain several allegations of
corruption levelled against him, noting that the interrogators are not
done with him.
Daily Trust also gathered that Abati
is still in detention and has been unable to explain how he distributed
funds received from the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA).
It was learnt that Abati admitted
receiving N50 million from the ONSA under Sambo Dasuki and also said the
money was distributed as Christmas and Sallah gifts to journalists
while he was spokesman of former President Goodluck Jonathan.
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