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PA to the Kebbi State governor suddenly slumped to demise on Thursday in Birni Kebbi, allegedly after  finding signals that the Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) was coming in for him in respect  of a N3billion fraud in the reports of their state government.



Aminu Gwandu, was due for burial yesterday according to Islamic rites.  However, his death did not stop the commission from  arresting the state's Accountant-General, Mr. Dan Atto in reference to the matter.
 Atto was taken fully to Abuja for interrogation.  Atto was invited by the EFCC to throw light on the alleged diversion of the N3 billion into private accounts.

It was learnt that the late Aminu Gwandu was apparently scared stiff by signals he too could be invited by the agency,especially the stigma that matches such interface with the anti-graft agency.

A source said the development was said to have hit him just like a thunderbolt. His health soon deteriorated and he slumped. He died before he could easily get medical assistance. The Accountant-General of the state, who initially appeared at the EFCC's office in Kano, reported again yesterday.  He was immediately arrested and whisked to Abuja for interrogation.

A source in EFCC, however, said:

“There was no incident associated with the EFCC on the looks and arrest of Atto.

“We're investigating alleged laundering of N3billion which we've traced with a accounts. We're quizzing many suspects like the Accountant-General, Atto.

“After reporting in Kano, our men picked him up for a comprehensive grilling in Abuja.”

The Head of Media and Publicity of the EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, said Atto was in “EFCC custody to clarify some issues.”

Goveror Saidu Usman Dakingari could not be reached for his reaction last night.

In respect to a report by Premium Times The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has nabbed two sons of Jigawa state governor, Sule Lamido, over an alleged N10billion fraud.

    Aminu and Mustapha  Lamido were arrested on Thursday in Kano and flown to Abuja on Friday morning, and are currently being interrogated at the EFCC headquarters in Abuja by a crack team of detectives.
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    The arrest of the governor’s sons, insiders say, is in furtherance of the investigation that commenced in December 2012 when Aminu Sule Lamido was arrested at the Mallam Aminu Kano Airport en route Cairo, Egypt for failure to declare the $50,000 he had on him. Although Aminu has since been prosecuted and convicted by a Federal High Court in Kano, investigation as to how he came by the money has led investigations to uncover a web of money laundering in which billions of naira from Jigawa state govt accounts are funnelled into the accounts of companies run by the Jigawa state governor and his 2sons.

Over N10billion is said to have been transferred from Jigawa state government accounts into the accounts in which Sule Lamido and his two sons have interest from 2007 till date.
The Commission is said to have traced these transfers to 10 companies where Lamido and sons are directors and signatories to the account.

The companies include Bamaina Alluminium Limited, Bamaina Holdings Limited, Bamaina Company Nigeria Limited, Rawda Integrated Services Limited, Speeds International Limited and Saby Integrated Nigeria Limited.

The account of these companies received huge cash inflow between 2007 and 2013, a period that coincide with the tenure of Sule Lamido as governor of Jigawa state. For instance in Bamaina Aluminium where Sule Lamido and his two sons are directors, investigations revealed that the company’s account controlled by Mustapha as signatory received total credit of N1.52billion between January 2010 and August 2013. It recorded a total debit of the same amount, with Mustapha and other companies in which Lamido and his sons are directors, being the beneficiaries.

In the same vein, Bamaina Holdings Limited’s account with the governor as sole signatory received a total of N1.19billion between February 2007 and July 2013.
About N1billion was paid from this account into accounts of companies controlled by the governor and his sons.

Massive lodgements were also discovered in the account of Bamaina Company Nigeria limited controlled by Mustapha as sole signatory from Bamaina Alluminium. Between January 2010 and July 2013, the account received over N500million.

From the account of Rawda Integrated Services Limited controlled by Mustapha, there have also been massive movement of funds to another company run by Sule Lamido, Speeds International Limited. Speeds’ account recorded a turnover ofN2.2billion between January 2007 and February 2010.

In the account of Rawda with a new generation bank investigators discovered the movement of N2.6billion to an unknown signatory.

That account recorded over one hundred withdrawals running to over N600milion in cash between November 2007 and April 2008.

Saby Integrated Services Nigeria Limited, another company owned by Lamido received over N730million from several Jigawa State government agencies between June 2010 and August 2010.

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Suspected Internet fraudster, Tobechukwu Igbokwe, and his accomplice, Ifeanyi Obi have now been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for allegedly defrauding U.S of $40 million.

19-year-old Igbokwe and Obi have now been held at the Kirikiri prisons since they certainly were caught after an event went burst.  Nigerian Eye reports that the American victim, Michael Silva had wired the full total sum of $40 million to the boys in Nigerian believing them once they told him that they'd a massive inheritance that they wanted to go on to a foreign account for safekeeping.

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Silva was asked to send money to “process” the transfer and he did so in instalments through Western Union Transfer.  Igbokwe and Obi have now been charged on 12-counts bordering on forgery, conspiracy and obtaining money by false pretences unlike Sections 8(a) and 1(3) of the Advance Fee Fraud and Other Fraud Related Offences Act No. 14 of 2006.

Appearing before Justice Lawal of a Lagos State High Court, Ikeja was alleged to have duped many other people, most of them foreigners he connected with through the internet under fraudulent guises among them a Tommy Bedwell, who lost $6,000 to him and Richard Hunt, $15,000.

According to reports, one of the charges against Igbokwe and Obi read: “Tobechukwu Igbokwe (alias David Prince, alias John Emma, sometimes in the month of October 2011 in Lagos, within the Ikeja Judicial Division, with intent to defraud, obtained $800, $700, $200, $400, $200, $300, $500, $500, $500, $200 (totalling $5,500).

“Which sum you obtained separately from Michael Silva of the United States of America under false pretence that the money represent part payment for processing inheritance funds due him as a beneficiary of the fund and which pretence you knew was false.”

The case was adjourned for further hearing on December 3