EFCC Arrests Party Agent With Over N1.2m, Another With N300k In Borno

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Maiduguri Zonal office
has arrested one Abba Ali Abbari, a party agent, delegated alleged to
have been hired to distributes some money to people from Auno, Dalwa,
Jakana in Konduga LGA Borno State. Gistvic Reports.

Abbari was
arrested at the NYSC Internally Displaced Persons camp with the sum of
N1, 290,000.00, with a template given to him by a party Chairman
Election Committee to pay the sum of N50, 000 (Fifty Thousand Naira) to
party agents, according to him.

Similarly, Alhaji Garba Isah a
party stakeholder was arrested by Operatives of the Maiduguri Zonal
office at Ali Mongonu Teacher’s Village Internally Displaced Persons
camp with the sum of N300, 000.00, while distributing to voters from
Kukawa and Doran Baga in the camp. Gistvic Reports.

According to him,

“my
duty is to take care of ballot boxes and to equally share money to
voters. This particular money was given to me by a stakeholder.”

Isah stated during an interview with Gistvic Reporters.

While
making the arrest at Teacher’s Village IDP camp, the beneficiaries
vandalized a vehicle belonging to a staff of the Commission. The DPO of
Doran Baga who intervened, saved the situation.