A top operative of the commission, who
spoke to our correspondent on condition of anonymity, stated that the
commission would commence the prosecution of the former minister in the
first week of November.
The source did not specify the exact
charges that would be filed against the former minister, who was
arrested penultimate Monday and has since been in EFCC custody.
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The source added, “He would be arranged
in court for the disbursement of some of the funds traced to the account
of Silva McNamara.
“I can’t say the exact charges but
definitely, his case has to do with how some of the N4.7bn, traced to
the account of the company, was spent.”
Babajide and Gbolahan, two of
Obanikoro’s sons, were said to be directors of Silva McNamara when
N4.7bn was allegedly paid into the company’s accounts.
The money was said to be part of the
amount earmarked to finance the June 21, 2014 Ekiti State governorship
election, which Governor Ayodele Fayose won, and the November 19, 2014,
governorship poll in Osun State, which Chief Iyiola Omisore of the
Peoples Democratic Party contested and lost.
Investigations on Tuesday revealed that
the commission would arraign the former minister in connection with the
claim that N785m was spent out of the funds traced to McNamara to
prosecute the campaign against Boko Haram in Lagos and the South-West.
Obanikoro had told his EFCC
interrogators that N200m was spent on surveillance activities and
another N200m and N385m on logistics and operations of the anti-Boko
Haram campaign, which he claimed were supervised by one Taiwo Kareem,
whom he identified as the owner of McNamara.
A top operative of the commission had
told our correspondent on the telephone on Thursday that Obanikoro was
still making efforts to raise some money to facilitate his release.
The commission, it was learnt, gave Obanikoro a condition to raise N100m to get a bail.
A source in the anti-graft agency added
on Tuesday, “The man is still in detention. I know that he is still
making moves to refund some money.”
Meanwhile, the EFCC has concluded arrangement to file new charges against the former Minister of Aviation, Mr. Femi Fani-Kayode.
A top operative of the commission said
Fani-Kayode would be prosecuted for allegedly receiving N26m from the
Office of the National Security Adviser on November 21, 2014.
“The commission will file fresh charges against Femi Fani-Kayode on November 10, 2016 in Abuja.
“The case against him is the issue of
the receipt of N26m from the ONSA. The voucher for the payment of the
funds did not specify the purpose for which the funds were paid,” a
source told our correspondent on Tuesday.
The EFCC had said it was investigating
the former Director of Publicity of the Dr. Goodluck Jonathan’s
Presidential Campaign Organisation for allegedly receiving N26m through a
police orderly.
An aide to the former minister said Fani-Kayode denied ever receiving such funds and did not admit it in his statement.
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