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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested, Lara, the wife of the immediate past Chief of Air Staff (CAS), Air Marshal Adesola Amosu (rtd), over the arms procurement scandal.

Impeccable sources said that Mrs. Lara Amosu was picked up by the EFCC operatives last week in Abuja.
She has been in the custody of the EFCC in Lagos for the past one week.

It was learnt that her lawyer has been battling without success to get her released.
Mrs. Amosu’s arrest followed the alleged discovery of about N3 billion in her bank s. She was allegedly holding the money in trust for her husband.

A source said that other properties traced to the former CAS were also being held by his wife and children.
It was reported that the EFCC discovered N17.5 billion in the s of wives of three airforce chiefs. The monies were scattered in various banks s.
A source familiar with the investigation said that N13 billion was traced to the bank s of a wife of a retired Air Vice Marshal, who held strategic position in the Nigeria Air Force (NAF).

In the bank s of another wife of a serving senior officer, N1.5 billion was found.
It was learnt that the officers handled the finance, budget and s of NAF.
Amosu was arrested two weeks ago by the EFCC over his involvement in the arms scandal.

“Shortly after Amosu was picked up in Abuja, his wife, Lara, was subsequently arrested. Investigations conducted showed that some of the monies the former Chief of Air Staff made through some contracts and procurements in NAF were traced to his wife’s s.

“About N3 billion was traced to the wife’s s while some assets acquired by the former service chief was in her name and some others in her company’s name.

“So, Lara is an accessory to a crime. The proceeds with her are from the arms funds. As we prosecute her husband, she must also be held able,” the source said.
It was further learnt that the wife of Air Vice Marshal J.B. Adigun, Chief of and Budget of NAF, has travelled out of the country two weeks ago, shortly after the arrest of her husband. The hurried trip was said to

Adigun has been indicted by the presidential arms . He is in the EFCC custody. Several of his properties in Lagos and Abuja have been seized by the antigraft agency. Billions of naira was said to have been traced to Adigun’s wife’s s.

It was also learnt that the EFCC retrieved $1 million cash in Amosu’s residence in his residence in Badagary, Lagos.
A source said that the money, in foreign currency, was retrieved when EFCC operatives carried out a search on Amosu’s residence in Badagry.

According to the source: “In continuation of the investigation into the arms probe, the EFCC operatives took Amosu to his residence in Badagry. After a thorough search of the residence, a fresh small ‘soakaway’ pit was discovered in the compound. The operatives suspected foul play, which informed the breaking of the ‘soakaway’. Surprisingly, $1 million was found in it. The money was subsequently confiscated.”

It was also learnt that Air Commodore Akinwale (rtd) who manages the St. Solomon Health Care Limited, an ultra-modern diagnostic centre owned by Amosu, along Adeniyi Jones Avenue in Ikeja, Lagos is still in the custody of the EFCC


The retired airforce officer oversees the medical centre on behalf of Amosu. The diagnostic centre has been sealed off by the anti-graft agency.
Meanwhile, the EFCC is still keeping Amosu, Adigun, and Air Commodore O. Gbadebo in Lagos. A source said that the anti-graft agency has been taking the indicted officers to assets traced to them, considered to have been acquired through funds illegally realised from the arms procurement. Some of the identified properties have been sealed off.
Amosu, Adigun and Gbadebo were arrested two weeks ago in Abuja. Impeccable sources said that the trio were flown into Lagos in an airforce aircraft on a Sunday and discreetly kept in a hotel.
The arrest and interrogation of Amosu is coming after it was reported in the November 30, 2015 edition, that the Federal Government had directed the EFCC to prosecute the ex-CAS.
Amosu, Adigun, Gbadebo and other indicted officers are being investigated over 10 NAF contracts totalling $930,500,690 awarded to Societe D’ Equipments Internationaux (SEI) Nig Ltd. between January 2014 and February 2015.

The award letters, according to the arms probe , contained misleading delivery dates, suggesting fraudulent intent in the award process.
Operatives are also grilling the ex-chief of army staff and the two senior officers over the procurement of two used Mi-24V Helicopters instead of the recommended Mi-35M series at the cost of $136,944,000.
The helicopters were discovered to be excessively priced and not operationally airworthy at the time of delivery.
The arms probe established that a brand new unit of Mi-24V Helicopter goes for about $30 million. The helicopters were delivered without rotor blades and upgrade accessories.
The three of them are also being grilled over the procurement of four used Alpha-Jets for the NAF at the cost of $7,180,000.
Whereas NAF paid for four used Alpha-Jets, the confirmed that only two of the Alpha-Jet aircraft were ferried to Nigeria after cannibalisation of engines from the NAF fleet.
They are also being investigated in the procurement of 36D6 Low Level Air Defence Radar for NAF, which was awarded to GAT Techno Dynamics Ltd in April 2014 at the cost of $33 million under his watch.
The arms averred that the radars were excessively priced as a complete set of such radars goes for $6 million.
Acting on the recommendations made by the 13-man presidential committee auditing arms procurement between 2007 and 2015, President Muhammadu Buhari, had ordered the EFCC to conduct further investigation on the indictment of Amosu, former Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh (rtd); Air Marshal M.D. Umar (Rtd), Maj- Gen. ER Chioba (Rtd), AVM I.A. Balogun (Rtd), AVM A.G. Tsakr (Rtd), AVM A.G. Idowu (Rtd), AVM AM Mamu, AVM O.T Oguntoyinbo, and AVM T Omenyi. Others were: AVM J.B. Adigun, AVM R.A. Ojuawo, AVM JA Kayode-Beckley, Air Cdre S.A. Yushau (Rtd), Air Cdre A.O. Ogunjobi, Air Cdre G.M.D. Gwani, Air Cdre SO Makinde, Air Cdre A.Y. Lassa, Col. N. Ashinze and Lt Col. M.S. Dasuki (Rtd). Badeh had been in the custody of EFCC since Monday. Over N29 billion and $2 billion had been expended on the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) procurement activities alone between 2007 and 2015.

https://www.today.ng/news/national/78520/arms-deal-efcc-arrests-ex-cas-amosus-wife-recovers-1m-in-soakaway-pit

So since may of last year when buhari bcame president the only thing i keep hearing is billion this, billion that. Like fayose asked a while ago, how much has d fg recovered, i mean like how much money have they recovered and if any, what are d monies being used for? Efcc keeps seeing billions and arresting people but no results. This corruption fight dey somehow walahi. Modified:: ftc on fp. I dedicate this to all d non criminal nigerians. They can try but they"ll never pull us down.

Sourceless.

Hmmmn..the same source that said Methuh "ate evidence" ... in court efcc denied it

If these allegations are true then all those implicated should be charged to court and if found guilty,they should be sentenced to death by firing squad. How can you keep 1million dollars in a soak away? That is madness!

Thank God Jona and his party was voted out. They were all out to finish this country and the wailers will never see anything wrong in all these. Thank God for Buhari.

Naija which way? If this allegation is confirmed to be true, then let efcc do the needful.

Ojigbijibijigbi

Any better way to hide dirty money Owo igbe o kirun.

With the amounts EFCC, APC keeps mentioning week in week out Buhari won't need oil money to fund his budget.

Keep it up but we need to know how much recovered so far and ensure prosecutions asap.

I was surprised when I heard the news this morning, so people still use that trick of hiding stolen money in soak away pits? Later Nigerians would start classifying them as being stinking rich, I suppose we now know where the stink comes from.

But where is lalasticlala sef

Many drama in Nija......imagine someone with a noble post to indulge in a shady deal to defraud us our commmon wealth. And he will use the money to train the children right?


Keeping money in the pit , what a shame

Distractions everywhere.
When are we gonna hear that the value of naira has appreciated?
That electricity is stable, that jobs are being created etc.

LaurelP:
Distractions everywhere.
When are we gonna hear that the value of naira has appreciated?
That electricity is stable, that jobs are being created etc.

Lol! E dey pain you

True definition of "stinkingly rich"!

Have said it and continue to say it the problem we have in this country is the civil servants cos politicians are learners wia they are all sector of the civil service is so corrupt that even devil bow his cap for them

Thank God they are being exposed.

These men should face the firing squad already. *cries*

Kai!! Darris God oooo....

....1million USD in a septic tank??.....why don't we emmulate China's method of hamdling corrupt officials??...

Imagine 1million dollar inside soakaway pit. Haha una Won carry am go heaven

bettercreature:
Lol! E dey pain you

Pain me ke.
Just airing my opinion

Great. When you are looking for corruption, don't look elsewhere. Come to Naija

These are the people killing our soldiers in sambisa.

These thieves are just so unpatriotic.

Efcc,pmb,Lai Mohammed & media propaganda,.,
. Government filled with lies will end up bankrupting naija,,,
same way they accused metuh & now metuh is the one chasing them in court..
pls Efcc should stop doing there job on the media coz we are yet to see any conviction & the total amount realized so far in the daaukigate saga..
Efcc come to the media to announce $ while the country is going to borrow coz the economy is shrinking . Each day efcc goes to the media to accuse innocent ppl tht are not proven guilty bythe court of law yet of corruption.
intact,we are tired of efcc & this govt,..wish tommorrow is 2019 election so tht I can do the needful

Shitty money

Boss13:
These thieves are just so unpatriotic.

Have u seen a patriotic thief before?

Some may have dug graves to hide theirs!

It's really becoming stale how dis "sauces" generate some of these allegations and figures. Aside from the link to the rather questionable "sauce", the only thing dat kips catching my attention are "a source" and "anoda impeccable source" . And when dey get to court it becomes denial and counter denials. If u believe dis story, den u are obviously a zombie. Septic tank kor, financial tank ni.

LaurelP:
Distractions everywhere.
When are we gonna hear that the value of naira has appreciated?
That electricity is stable, that jobs are being created etc.

Typical Ipod mentality. Even without looking at the signature, their comments alone reveal where they're from.

Had these Goats you people defend so much not gone close to our precious Yams, perhaps you wouldn't be talking about falling Naira, electricity or jobs.

By the way, who the hell is distracting you?? Did anyone force you to open the thread or visit the forum?? Why don't you simply limit your attention to those kind of news you imagine don't constitute "distractions"??

#all these Orubebe wannabes sef.

Nigerians has completely lost their Family values and morals. Hope his children are also not involved!!!