The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested six senior officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) over alleged N6 billion fraud.
The senior officers are currently being grilled by EFCC interrogators at the commission’s headquarters, Jabi, Abuja, according to The PUNCH.
Though details of the probe are still sketchy, it was 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 officers’ release for interrogation.
A source revealed, “Six senior NSCDC officers are currently in our custody. They’re being grilled by our investigators over alleged fraudulent activities running into over N6 billion”.
Confirming the development, another source said, “The EFCC did not arrest the NSCDC CG, neither is he being probed. We only have six senior NSCDC officers in our custody, and they’re being probed over alleged N6 billion fraud.
“The EFCC Chairman had earlier written to the NSCSC CG to provide the officers, and the CG did. Now they’re in our custody and are being grilled by EFCC interrogators”.
The spokesperson for the EFCC, Dele Oyewale, could not be reached for comments on Monday as phone calls and text messages to his phone lines were not responded to nor returned.
Meanwhile, when contacted for comments, the spokesperson for the NSCDC, Babawale Afolabi, said he was not aware of the development.
“I’m not aware of this”, Afolabi said in a terse WhatsApp message sent on Monday.
