EFCC to arraign ex-Chief of Air Staff, MD Umar, 16 others on Wednesday
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has announced that
it will arraign a former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Mohammed Dikko
Umar before Justice Binta Nyako of the Federal High Court, Abuja,
tomorrow (Wednesday, May 11, 2016).
President Muhammadu Buhari had given the anti-graft agency the nod to
beam its searchlight on the immediate past Chief of Defence Staff
(CDS), Air Chief Marshal Alex Sabundu Badeh, former Chief of Air Staff,
Air Marshal Mohammed Dikko Umar (2010 -2012) and the immediate past
Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Nunayon Amosu, for alleged
fraudulent arms purchases for the Air Force between 2007 and 2015.
Also penned down for investigation by the anti-graft agency are 16
other retired and serving military officers and 21 firms said to have
been awarded the contracts.
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