Six Senior NSCDC officers arrested by EFCC over N6billion Fraud

About Six senior officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps have been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over alleged N6billion fraud.

At the commission’s headquarters, Jabi, Abuja, the senior officers are currently being interrogated by EFCC interrogators.

However, details of the investigation are still incomplete, the newsmen gathered that the NSCDC officers were handed over to the EFCC on Monday on the order of the NSCDC Commandant General, Ahmed Audi.

A flawless sources obscured to the development but  was not authorised to speak to the press, he revealed that the EFCC Chairman, Ola Olukoyede, had earlier written a letter to the NSCDC CG, demanding the officers’ release for interrogation.

A source revealed, “Six senior NSCDC officers are currently in our custody. They’re being grilled by our investigators over alleged fraudulent activities running into over N6bn.”

Confirming the development, another source said, “The EFCC did not arrest the NSCDC CG, neither is he being probed. We only have six senior NSCDC officers in our custody, and they’re being probed over alleged N6bn fraud.

“The EFCC Chairman had earlier written to the NSCSC CG to provide the officers, and the CG did. Now they’re in our custody and are being grilled by EFCC interrogators.”

On Monday Dele Oyewale, the spokesperson for the EFCC, could not be reached for comments as phone calls and text messages to his phone lines were not responded to nor returned.

The NSCDC, spokesperson Babawale Afolabi, when contacted stated that he was not aware of the development.

“I’m not aware of this,” Afolabi said in a terse WhatsApp message sent to our correspondent on Monday.

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