Breaking: EFCC Arrests Rotimi Amaechi’s Former Ally And Ex-NDDC MD Nsima Ekere Over Alleged N47B Fraud

EFCC  Operatives Have Arrested Rotimi Amaechi‘s Ally And Ex-NDDC MD Nsima Ekere Over Alleged N47B Fraud.

 

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CityNews Nigeria reports that the Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Wednesday, arrested the former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) Nsima Ekere for alleged diversion of funds to the tune of N47 billion through registered contractors of the agency.

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This is according to the Commission’s spokesperson Wilson Uwajaren who confirmed it to Channels Television.

 

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Sources with direct knowledge of the case told PREMIUM TIMES that Mr Ekere was detained after he surrendered himself at the commission’s office in Lagos on Wednesday.

“Mr Ekere has been under investigations for years. He surrendered himself for arrest on Wednesday after realising that the commission was closing in on him,” one of the sources who pleaded not to be named because they did not get authorisation to speak to journalists on the matter, told this newspaper.

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The sources said the 56-year-old, who served as the managing director and chief executive officer of the NDDC between 2017 and 2018, is being investigated over allegations of contract inflation and award of fictitious contracts during his time in office.

Mr Ekere, who allegedly committed the offences starting from 2017, according to sources, allegedly laundered funds from NDDC accounts through contractors to buy choice properties in Lagos.

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