A former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, on Monday arrived in Nigeria from his base in the United States of America to respond to an invitation by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in relation to the N4.75 billion arms funds traced to him.
The former minister arrived in Lagos from the United States enroute Amsterdam and headed for Abuja to keep an earlier scheduled appointment with the EFCC on Monday.
The EFCC is investigating a firm belonging to two sons of Obanikoro, Sylvan McNamara, for receiving N4.75 billion arms funds from the office of the former National Security Adviser, retired Colonel Sambo Dasuki, between April 4, 2014 and December 15, 2014.
The two sons are Babajide and Gbolahan.
The commission is claiming with documentary proof that a total of N4.745 billion was paid into the Diamond Bank account of Sylvan McNamara during the period.
The minister arrived Abuja from Lagos by 7:45am and headed to the EFCC office to keep his appointment with the anti-graft agency and was still with the EFCC as at the time of filing this report.
The Head of Media and Publicity of the EFCC, Wilson Uwujaren, could not be reached for comments.
Calls to Uwujaren’s mobile telephone did not connect.
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