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#DasukiGate: N400 Million Traced To Army Officer’s Account

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The probe of the disbursement of the $2.1 billion arms cash by the Office of the former National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki has led to more revelations.

Most recent revelation from investigators from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has traced N400 million to an account belonging to an Army officer.

The account, domiciled in a third generation commercial bank, had been frozen by the EFCC and efforts made to track the suspect and others yet to be summoned.

The identity of the army officer is being kept secret by the EFCC to avoid raising eyebrows.

This new revelation comes as the National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, continued to face more grilling from his interrogators.

There were indications that the operatives of the EFCC are not in a hurry to free Metuh, who was  arrested and detained on Tuesday, January 5, 2016.

The EFCC had identified other military personnel, who had at one time or the other drawn money from the ONSA and was keen on getting them to account for it.

A source said that it was as a result of the discovery of the names of the military personnel that the EFCC formally wrote to the Defence Headquarters to release the identified officers and men to the Commission for questioning.

An officer with the rank of a colonel from Delta State, said to have served as a PA to the embattled ex-NSA, had already been arrested and detained by the EFCC for over three weeks over the discovery that he took huge sums meant for arms procurement.

He is said to have been saddled with procurement under the former NSA and had used his position to acquire stupendous wealth, including the acquisition of imposing buildings in choice areas of the FCT.

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