The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission has arrested Emeka Mba, the Director General of the Nigerian
Broadcasting Commission over an alleged N15 billion fraud.
Mr. Mba was arrested on Monday morning in Abuja and taken to the EFCC’s headquarters where he is currently being interrogated.
Those familiar with the investigation
say the EFCC had been investigating the NBC in the past one month.
Last week, some detectives stormed
the headquarters of the NBC, ransacking computers and files in the Finance and
Account unit.
During the operation, some key
Accounts staff where taken away.
Sources said the arrested officials
made confessional statements to the EFCC implicating Mr. Mba and some top
officials of the NBC.
When contacted, the EFCC
spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, said he was on an official assignment in Lagos
and had not been briefed.
But a top official of the anti-graft
agency said: “Yes, he (Mr. Mba) is with us. We are investigating massive
diversion of public funds and we’re making progress. Mba definitely has
questions to answer.”
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