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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