A private aircraft belonging to Oritsajefor last month conveyed some unnamed persons and the cash to South Africa ostensibly to purchase arms from the black market to help bolster Nigeria’s fight against terrorists in parts of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa States
Browsing: $9.3m arms deal
The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Public Communication, Dr. Doyin Okupe, while speaking on Sunday with Religious Affairs reporters in Abuja, said it was unfair to link Oritsejafor with the deal
A report in a South African newspaper, City Press, earlier on Monday said the South African Government had seized another $5.7 million belonging to the Nigerian Government
The news came more than two weeks after two Nigerians and an Israeli national were arrested in South Africa when they attempted to “smuggle” US$9.3 million apparently meant for buying arms for the Nigerian intelligence service