Nigeria's Former Chief Of Air Staff Amosu Detained By EFCC Over Arms Procurement Fraud
BY SAHARAREPORTERS, NEW YORK JAN 28, 2016
Nigeria's
former Chief of Air Staff, Air Vice Marshal Adesola Amosu, has been
arrested and detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) over allegations of massive fraud that characterized arms
procurement during his tenure.
An EFCC source told
SaharaReporters that the retired air marshal is being investigated
amongst other acts for reportedly authorizing the purchase of two
helicopters without functional rotors. He added that the former top
military officer later compelled two air force officers to fly in one of
the helicopters after the craft was equipped with a rotor that was
taken from an unserviceable Russian-made helicopter gunship. The air
force officers died in a crash near Yola, the capital of Adamawa State,
because the rotors fitted on their chopper was too heavy.
The
source claimed that EFCC investigators had so far traced nine luxury
homes to Mr. Amosu. The retired officer’s suspected homes include an
imposing property in the Government Reservation Area (GRA) of Ikeja in
Lagos State. Our source stated that the Ikeja property is estimated at
more than N350 million.
President Muhammadu Buhari recently asked
the EFCC to launch a broad investigation of serving and retired
military officers suspected of looting funds budgeted for the
procurement of weapons and other tools for the Nigerian military to
support the war against Islamist insurgents in the country’s northeast.
One
EFCC source revealed that agents of the anti-corruption agency were
working diligently on numerous investigations involving other top
officers who may have milked the defense budget.
http://saharareporters.com/2016/01/28/nigerias-former-chief-air-staff-amosu-detained-efcc-over-arms-procurement-fraud
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