The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission says the new Chairman of
the Peoples Democratic Party, Ali Modu Sheriff, is still under
investigation for alleged corruption.
Sheriff was arrested by the
commission in June last year for alleged embezzlement of public funds
during his eight years as governor of Borno State but was granted bail.
His
government was said to have received over N300bn from the Federation
Account between 2003 and 2011, an amount alleged to have been mismanaged
by Sheriff.
The ex-governor of Borno State was subsequently
detained from June 3 to June 4, 2015 and released on administrative bail
without being charged to court.
The EFCC spokesman, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, had said at the time, “We can ask him to come back anytime we need him.”
Speaking with our correspondent on Monday during a telephone interview, Uwujaren said, “Sheriff is still under investigation.”
When
asked to explain how far the commission had gone in the probe, Uwujaren
said, “I cannot disclose the details of the investigations for now but
the matter is already in the public domain.”
A reliable source
within the anti-graft agency told one of our correspondents that
Sheriff’s probe was not a witch-hunt but a normal criminal
investigation.
He said, “Criminal matters do not have statutes of
limitation. If a crime took place 30 years ago, we can re-open it at
any point in time and that is what is happening.”
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