THE LIST: Fayemi, Okonjo-Iweala, Akpabio — high-profile individuals ‘under EFCC probe’
September 06
09:43
2017
The high-profile individuals who are reportedly being probed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) include former governors, ex-ministers, justices and an ex-first lady.
According to PUNCH, not less than 100 high-ranking public officials and persons who served in the Goodluck Jonathan administration are in a list seen by its reporters.
The list was said to have been sent to Abubakar Malami, the attorney general of the federation and minister of justice, by the EFCC.
The investigations on the high profile persons were said to have been instigated by petitions, whistle blowers and through intelligence gathering.
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Here are some of the names on the list:
- Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti
- Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi
- Idris Wada, former governor of Kogi
- Godswill Akpabio, former governor of Akwa Ibom
- Jonah Jang, former governor of Plateau
- Ali Modu Sherriff, former governor of Borno
- Lucky Igbinedion, former governor of Edo
- Patience Jonathan, wife of former president Goodluck Jonathan
- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former minister of finance
- Kayode Fayemi, minister of solid minerals development
- Diezani Alison-Madueke, former minister of petroleum
- Mohammed Adoke, former attorney general of the federation
- Bala Mohammed, former FCT minister
- Stella Oduah, ex-minister of aviation
- Godsday Orubebe, former minister of Niger Delta affairs
- Alison Madueke, retired rear admiral and Diezani Alison-Madueke’s husband
- Reuben Abati, ex-special adviser to the president on media and publicity
- Doyin Okupe, former senior special assistant to the president on public affairs
- Abdullahi Dikko, former comptroller-general of Customs
- Walter Onnoghen, chief justice of Nigeria
- Uche Secondus, former acting chairman of the PDP
- Bello Fadile, a retired colonel who served under Sambo Dasuki, former NSA
- Abdul Kafarati, a justice
- Mohammed Tsamiya, a retired justice
Your comment..there are so many petitions with efcc and icpc but did not investigate talk less of prosecution. if buhari can remove magu and so many of his boys in efcc,billions of money will be recovered. buhari should not wait for a day with Magu in his govt.that nfiu shall be allowed to be in defendant.