Nigeria’s former Minister for Power, Sale Mamman, is being interrogated over an alleged N22 billion(US$47,718,000) fraud.
Sale Mamman, who served in the Buhari administration from August 2019 to September 2021, was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly conspiring with a staff of the Ministry of Power in charge of the accounts of the Zungeru and Mambilla Hydro Electric Power projects and diverting N22 billion, which they shared among themselves.
According to a report by Nigeria-based Daily Trust, their sources at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which is investigating corruption in some power projects, said the former Minister would be detained until “necessary information” is obtained from him.
The report said the investigations have also uncovered properties in Nigeria and overseas linked to the suspects, while millions of naira and United States Dollars have been recovered.
Daily Trust reported that several calls to the mobile phone of the spokesman of the anti-graft agency, Wilson Uwujaren, went unanswered.
He also did not respond to a text message sent to his mobile phone.
Source: https://energynewsafrica.com