A former chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Malam Nuhu Ribadu, has denied being a partaker of the sharing of the $2.1 billion meant for the purchase of arms in the fight against the Boko Haram insurgency.
Ribadu, in a statement on Tuesday, said he never received any money from a former National Security Adviser, retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki, who was alleged to have shared a huge part of the money for political purposes.
He said: “My attention has been drawn to insinuations in certain quarters of my purported repayment of some monies I was allegedly given by the former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd).
“For the record, let me categorically state that I had nothing to do with the former NSA while he was in office. I cannot remember meeting him at anytime while he held sway.
“It is therefore shocking for me to be accused of receiving something from someone I never had any relationship with, not to talk of refunding money he gave me.”
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