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| Yakubu, ex-NNPC head with recovered Money |
Surprising revelations emerged the day gone by concerning the restoration of $nine.Eight million coins by using the economic and monetary Crimes commission, EFCC, from the Kaduna house of a former group managing Director of the Nigerian national Petroleum organization, NNPC, Dr. Adrew Yakubu, who claimed the recovered cash changed into given to him by using donors.
Saturday leading edge learnt that the whopping amount of money become hidden in a hearth-evidence secure and kept in an inconsequential building allegedly owned by way of the former head of the state-owned Oil and gas corporation. The invention of the stashed money in Sabon Tesha, a suburb in Kaduna, turned into the peak of an investigation via the fee into the length Yakubu headed the NNPC inside the last dispensation.
Performing on an intelligence, the fee, it turned into gathered, commenced investigation main to the invention of the funds in a facility, whose caretaker, Mr. Bitrus Yakubu, claimed to be a more youthful brother to the ex-NNPC boss.
The more youthful Yakubu, who was around as of the time EFCC officers stormed the constructing noted that his elder brother owned the constructing and the safe in which the cash became hidden.
It turned into in addition learnt that when the secure changed into opened, it contained the sum of $9,772,800 and any other sum of £seventy four,000.
At the energy of the finding which turned into showed by the Spokesperson of the EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, Saturday forefront accumulated that Yakubu was invited on February eight, 2017, through the fee and consequently detained.
The previous NNPC boss, who is currently being held via the anti-corruption organisation, mentioned owning the recovered money.
Yakubu, who turned into relieved of his position as the top of the NNPC in 2014 by way of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, become the fourth head of the employer in that dispensation.
His appointment which took effect on July 1, 2012, was pronounced to had been terminated because of disagreement over who to rent because the dealing with Director of Nigerian Petroleum development organisation restricted, NPDC.
An investigation by way of top class times had found out that Yakubu’s insistence that only someone with technical background changed into healthy to move the NPDC, ended in a clash of interests with the then Minister of Petroleum, who allegedly engineered his removal through the management of ex-President Jonathan.
Saturday leading edge learnt that the whopping amount of money become hidden in a hearth-evidence secure and kept in an inconsequential building allegedly owned by way of the former head of the state-owned Oil and gas corporation. The invention of the stashed money in Sabon Tesha, a suburb in Kaduna, turned into the peak of an investigation via the fee into the length Yakubu headed the NNPC inside the last dispensation.
Performing on an intelligence, the fee, it turned into gathered, commenced investigation main to the invention of the funds in a facility, whose caretaker, Mr. Bitrus Yakubu, claimed to be a more youthful brother to the ex-NNPC boss.
The more youthful Yakubu, who was around as of the time EFCC officers stormed the constructing noted that his elder brother owned the constructing and the safe in which the cash became hidden.
It turned into in addition learnt that when the secure changed into opened, it contained the sum of $9,772,800 and any other sum of £seventy four,000.
At the energy of the finding which turned into showed by the Spokesperson of the EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, Saturday forefront accumulated that Yakubu was invited on February eight, 2017, through the fee and consequently detained.
The previous NNPC boss, who is currently being held via the anti-corruption organisation, mentioned owning the recovered money.
Yakubu, who turned into relieved of his position as the top of the NNPC in 2014 by way of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, become the fourth head of the employer in that dispensation.
His appointment which took effect on July 1, 2012, was pronounced to had been terminated because of disagreement over who to rent because the dealing with Director of Nigerian Petroleum development organisation restricted, NPDC.
An investigation by way of top class times had found out that Yakubu’s insistence that only someone with technical background changed into healthy to move the NPDC, ended in a clash of interests with the then Minister of Petroleum, who allegedly engineered his removal through the management of ex-President Jonathan.