ECONOMIC and Financial
Crimes Commission has released the immediate past Chief of Air Staff, Air
Marshal Adesola Amosu (rtd.), and other senior officers arrested over the
$2.1bn arms scam.
Among those granted administrative bail alongside Amosu include
former Chief of Accounts and Budgeting of the Nigerian Air Force, Air Vice
Marshal J.B. Adigun, and former NAF Director of Finance and Budget, Air
Commodore O. O. Gbadebo.
However, the EFCC reportedly seized
their passports and they were also given the option of returning the money they
allegedly stole.
Already, the anti-graft body
had earlier in February seized properties worth over N5bn from the three senior
officers including the sum of N381m from a company in which Amosu’s wife,
Omolara, is believed to be a director and a certified signatory to the account.
The money was traced from the
account of the Nigerian Air Force to the bank accounts of a company. Similarly,
the EFCC successfully recovered the sum of $140,000 from a safe in Amosu’s
Badagry home.
The Spokesperson for the EFCC, Mr. Wilson
Uwujaren, confirmed that Amosu and the other two had been released.
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