BREAKING: EFCC Arrests Another Top Govt Official

• EFCC has arrested another top government official.

THE NATION REPORTERS reports that the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on Wednesday, arrested Nsima Ekere, an ex-government official, who is the former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) for alleged diversion of funds to the tune of N47 billion through registered contractors of the agency.

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This was disclosed by the Commission’s spokesperson Wilson Uwajaren, who confirmed uh it to Channels Television.

Nsima was the agency’s Managing Director between 2016 and 2018.

The 56-year-old was the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate for Akwa Ibom in the 2019 elections

This is coming less than a few days after the EFCC arrested Ahmed Idris, Accountant General of the Federation over N80billion fraud.

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