BREAKING NEWS
NSA, EFCC Raid The Home Of Sacked Buhari Aide, Boroh, Discover $9m
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC)
and the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), have allegedly
discovered $9 million cash at the residence of the sacked Special Adviser on
Niger Delta to President Muhammadu Buhari and Coordinator of the Presidential
Amnesty Programme, Brig.-Gen. Paul Tarelah Boroh (rtd).
President Muhammadu Buhari
last week replaced Boroh with Professor Charles Quaker Dokubo.
The presidency had also disclosed that Buhari
directed “a full investigation into the activities of the Amnesty Programme
from 2015 to date, especially allegations of financial impropriety and other
acts”.
The discovery of the cash was made a few hours after
his arrest by a combined team of EFCC and ONSA operatives.
EFCC Head, Media and Publicity, Wilson Uwujiaren
confirmed the raid to Thisday.
A senior security agent also said that Boroh was
picked up from his home in Gwarinpa, Abuja, on Monday, but was taken back to
his residence at about 3 a.m. Tuesday by the security operatives who raided his
house for hours and made the cash discovery of $9 million at his home.
“The former adviser was driven to his home in an
unmarked car after his arrest. His home was searched for several hours and
about $9 million cash was discovered in several safe boxes in several parts of
the house,” the source said.
“The combined team of EFCC and the National Security
Adviser operatives were very thorough with the search. Indeed, at a point, the
operatives broke all the locks in the home including his wife’s closet. The
recovered cash has been deposited at the Office of the NSA,” he added.
Boroh’s sack, investigation and arrest by the EFCC
may not be unconnected to a petition, among others, that was sent to the
president last August.
In the petition to Buhari dated August 21, 2017 and
signed by one Timi Angalabiri, on behalf of the Niger Deltans for
Accountability and Good Governance (NDAGG), the group had requested the
president to suspend the ex-Amnesty Programme boss “for a credible
investigative inquiry to commence into the non-payment of tuition fees and
living expenses of recently graduated Niger Delta students in universities
across the United States, the United Kingdom and Nigeria, with many institutions
withholding the students’ certificates due to the non-payment of tuition fees
ranging from nine months to two years, despite receiving over N70 billion
within this time frame”.
The petitioner further pleaded with Buhari to use
his good office to prosecute Boroh and others for allegedly diverting the sum
of N70 billion.
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