The minister made this known in a statement issued on Sunday, adding that the said amount does not include the $9.2 million in cash allegedly owned by a former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, though he said that was also a dividend of the whistle-blower policy.
Former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Andrew Yakubu claims that the huge amount of dollars and Pound sterling recovered from his house in Kaduna by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, were gifts.
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has revealed that it found a total of $9.2 Million and 750,000 pounds in the Kaduna residence of former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Andrew Yakubu.