Six senior officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) have been arrested by Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged ₦6 billion fraud.
NigeriaNewsToday learnt that the senior officers are currently being grilled by EFCC interrogators at the commission’s headquarters, Jabi, Abuja.
According to Punch, the NSCDC officers were handed over to the EFCC on Monday on the order of the NSCDC Commandant General, Ahmed Audi.
Sources close to the development but were not authorised to speak to the press 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.”
