ABUJA—Former Borno Governor, Ali
Modu Sheriff spent his second day with the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission, EFCC, on Thursday, trying to explain all that he knew about the
alleged siphoning of over N300 billion under his watch.
The operatives, who started
questioning Sheriff at 6pm on Wednesday merely allowed him some breathing space
on Wednesday night and ordered him to report on Thursday for more grilling, a
directive, he obliged.
Ali Modu Sheriff
An EFCC source confirmed to Vanguard
last night that he would not know when the former governor would be freed by
his interrogators, who really wanted to establish the veracity of the story
relating to the N300 billion.
“The former governor was asked to go
home on Wednesday night and he returned to us at 10 am on Thursday and he is
still with us as I speak to you,” a senior official of the anti-graft agency
said.
The former governor walked into the
hands of his interrogators at the commission’s head office in Abuja at 6pm on
Wednesday and was immediately taken by his interrogators.
A top source at the commission
confirmed to Vanguard that Sheriff was quizzed over the sum of N300
billion taken from the coffers of the state without any work done with it as
claimed by his administration.
“We want the former governor to also
explain to us how the sum of N13 which was taken from local government joint
account in the state was used and what it was used for,” the source said.
Sheriff is alleged to have claimed
that his administration used the
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