Former Minister of the Federal Capital
Territory (FCT), Alhaji Bala Mohammed, and former Special Adviser on Media and
Publicity to former President Goodluck Jonathan Dr. Reuben Abati, and have been
arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for alleged
financial crimes.
They were arrested on monday and are
expected to spend at least the night at the commission THISDAY reports.
According to a source from the EFCC’s,
Abati was being interrogated for allegedly receiving money from the former
National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd).
The arrest of Abati by the EFCC brings to
at least four the number of former presidential aides under the Jonathan
administration, who are currently in EFCC custody.
Former Minister of FCT Bala Mohammed who was
equally arrested yesterday, has been under investigation for allegedly awarding
made-up contracts running into N1billion, allocation of 12 choice plots worth
billions of naira and 37 other commercial plots of land worth about N8billion
to his suspected front named Tariq Hammoud.
In additon to the investigation on made up
contracts, Bala mohammed is also under investigation for the controversial N1 trillion
Abuja land swap.
The EFCC source further stated that more
than 16 companies linked with the questionable contracts awarded by the former
minister had been under surveillance and their owners grilled by the anti-graft
agency.
EFCC had seized four houses valued at N872
million belonging to the former minister and his son, Shamsudeen Bala.
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