Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), have quizzed a former Governor of Zamfara State, Alhaji Mamuda Aliyu Shinkafi, a former Senator, Hassan Muhammed Nasiha and the state Chairman of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP). Sources at the EFCC confided in Sunday Telegraph, that Shinkafi and others were interrogated at the Kano Zonal office of the EFCC.
The EFCC has been investigating the $115 million said to have been lodged in Fidelity Bank Plc., by a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani-Alison Madueke.
Since the discovery, operatives of the anti-graft agency, have quizzed a former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Aminu Wali (Kano), another Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Dr. Nurudeen Muhammad (Jigawa State), former Cross River State Governor, Senator Liyel Imoke and Ntufam John Okon (Cross River State), and retired Air Commodore Idongesit Nkanga (Akwa Ibom).
Other suspects interrogated are: former Minister of State for Finance, Ambassador Bashir Yuguda (Zamfara), an ex-Minister of Mines and Steel, Arch. Musa Muhammad Sada (Katsina), as well as a former Minister of State for Agriculture, Asabe Asmau Ahmed (Niger).
This is even as the Commission had earlier quizzed an erstwhile Deputy Governor of Edo State, Chief Lucky Imasuen as well as former Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Pastor Osagie Ize Iyamu. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Fidelity Bank Plc. Mr. Nnamdi Okonkwo, has since been interrogated over the lodgement in his bank.
