A principal accountant with the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFUND, Abuja, Wali Muktar Usman, the director of works, Federal College of Education, Gombe, Yunusa Yakubu, and an architect are in the net of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, over a contract scam to the tune of N623 million.
The EFCC spokesman narrated that the suspects were arrested after they tried to lure an unsuspecting victim into believing that some unclaimed boxes containing huge amount of dollars were kept with some herdsmen believed to be accomplices by an unidentified politician.
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.
