The Punch has revealed that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has raided an office complex in Abuja belonging to former Vice President Namadi Sambo. EFCC operatives raided the office complex, which is not far from the National Defence College along Herbert Macaulay Way, Abuja, between 12noon and 6pm on Saturday. According to the publication, Aside from being on the list of those to be probed for arms purchase, it was gathered that the former vice president was also being investigated for his role as the Chairman of the National Council on Privatisation in the former President Goodluck Jonathan administration.
The EFCC operatives carted away many documents from the office but did not arrest anybody. It was learnt that the EFCC on Monday began an analysis of documents seized from the office of the former vice president.
A top operative of the anti-graft agency, told The PUNCH, that the operatives were on a mission to seize evidence that would likely be used against Sambo.
It was learnt that the documents carted away from Sambo’s office in files included banking transactions and inventory of properties within and outside Nigeria as well as copies of his asset declaration forms.
The source said the operatives had traced several properties believed to belong to Sambo to the United Kingdom and the United States apart from several others in the country.
One of our correspondents learnt that the investigation would get to a stage where the former vice president would be requested to make clarifications on the properties traced to him.
The source said, “Our operatives carried out a special operation at one of the offices of the former Vice President, Mr. Namadi Sambo, on Saturday.
“Most of the documents they took away have to do with banking operations and properties within and outside the country.
“Most of the properties they have traced so far are in the United Kingdom and the United States. Apart from those outside, there are also several houses within the country.
“The source explained that the former vice president could only be summoned for interrogation at the conclusion of the ongoing analysis of the documents they got from the office.
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