BREAKING: EFCC TO ARRAIGN FORMER AVIATION MINISTER, HADI SIRIKA, OTHERS THURSDAY
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Hadi Sirika, the former minister of aviation, is scheduled to be charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday before Justice Sylvanus Oriji of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Maitama.
A six-count revised accusation would be brought against Sirika, a minister in the previous president Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet.
He will be charged with three other people for abuse of office totaling N2.7 billion, including his daughter Fatima, Jalal Hamma, and Al-Duraq Investment Ltd.
His arrest in Abuja on April 23 was a result of EFCC investigations into financial misconduct allegedly committed by the former minister, “including fraudulent contracts awarded by the Ministry under his watch.”
When the Commission’s Abuja Zonal Command asked Sirika to speak about the purported contract misconduct, she was quickly taken into custody and questioned at the Commission’s Formella Street, Wuse 2 Zonal headquarters.
“Investigators handling the case asked the former minister, Sirika, for interrogation.
As part of EFCC investigations into the financial malfeasance allegedly committed by the former minister, “including fraudulent contracts awarded by the Ministry under his watch”, led to his detention on April 23 in Abuja.
Sirika was invited by the Abuja Zonal Command of the Commission on the alleged contract malfeasance and was promptly interrogated and detained at the Formella Street, Wuse 2 Zonal office of the Commission.
“The former minister (Sirika) was invited for questioning by investigators handling the alleged contract frauds under his watch in the ministry. He honoured the invitation and has been detained as I am talking with you,” a source in the EFCC who pleaded anonymity, told NAN’’.
The source also said that EFCC had been investigating the alleged contract frauds while the minister was in office, and he had even met with investigators before he was detained.
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