The investigation of the Nigerian Airspace Management Agency by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has revealed fresh facts about the scale of corruption th.at might have been going on in the agency
These include payments of over N3bn on ‘questionable contracts’ and unexecuted projects between 2013 and 2015. Others are monies approved for over-inflated air tickets and non-executed foreign trips.
The EFCC had on Friday arrested the Managing Director of NAMA, Ibrahim Abdulsalam, and four other top officials of the agency in a raid that lasted over nine hours.
The other officials, who have since been taken to Abuja for further interrogation, are the Director of Finance and Accounts, Mrs. Clara Aliche; Acting Director of Procurement, Muyiwa Adegorite; General Manager (Finance), Nurudeen Segun Agbolade; and Project Manager, Felicia Agubata.
Reports say that the officials are helping to unravel how Abdulsalam and his predecessor allegedly signed off payments of over N3bn on ‘questionable contracts’ between 2013 and 2015.
EFCC lamented that the alarming and reckless manner with which, “the present and the immediate past chief executives of NAMA have acted in expending public resources is frightening.”
