EFCC
Press Release
The
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested a former Minister
of State for Finance, Amb. Bashir Yuguda, for his alleged involvement in the
sharing of the sum of N450m( Four Hundred and Fifty Million Naira) allocated to
Zamfara out of the $115m deposited in
Fidelity Bank Plc. by the immediate past Minister of Petroleum Resources, Mrs.
Diezani Alison-Madueke, during the 2015 general elections.
Yuguda is
one of the former ministers in the administration of former President Goodluck
Jonathan who are being investigated by the anti-graft agency.
Yuguda,
in his statement, on Wednesday, May 11, 2016, admitted to have collected a
total of N450 million in his capacity as a chieftain of the People's Democratic
Party, PDP, in his state.
The
former minister, who hails from Zamfara State, also stated that he supervised the
sharing of the money in his home.
According
to him, a former Secretary to the Zamfara State Government and member of PDP Presidential
Campaign Committee 2015, Aminu Ahmed Nahuche, collected the sum of N450m
allocated to Zamfara State from Fidelity Bank Plc.
The
former minister is still under investigation at the EFCC Kano zonal office.
Wilson
Uwujaren,
Head, Media & Publicity,
May 11, 2016
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