N22bn Fraud: EFCC Arrests Ex-power Minister, Sale Mamman
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has arrested former Minister of Power, Sale Mamman, for allegedly participating in a N22 billion fraud.
Mamman, the minister of power from 2019 to 2021, was arrested and detained at the EFCC headquarters in Abuja on Wednesday morning.
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Ejesgist Media Limited gathered that his arrest is linked to investigations into corruption in the execution of some power projects.
The minister is accused of conspiring with ministry staff in charge of the Zungeru and Mambilla Hydro Electric Power projects’ accounts to divert N22 billion and divide it among themselves.
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The investigations are said to have uncovered properties in Nigeria and abroad linked to the suspects, as well as millions of dollars and naira.
Meanwhile, The Labour Party’s Lamidi Apapa faction has distanced itself from calls for an interim government and demands that President-elect Bola Tinubu not be sworn in on May 29, pending the outcome of the petitions before the presidential election tribunal.
According to a Labour Party faction, Tinubu’s inauguration “may have no impact on the ongoing legal squabble over the presidential election involving our party, APC, and INEC.”
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In a statement issued on Wednesday, the faction’s spokesman, Abayomi Arabambi, stated that the Electoral Act and the Nigerian Constitution do not allow for a vacuum, and that “whether the President-elect is sworn in or not, there is a legal right to remove him if it is discovered that he was not duly elected.”
Arabambi recalled how, in 2003, the court deposed Chris Ngige and installed Peter Obi as governor of Anambra.
Arabambi stated that only death and permanent incapacity could prevent a President-elect from being sworn in, citing sections 136 and 146 of the constitution.
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