Chris Ngige, the former Minister of Labour, is currently being held by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC).
Fred Chukwuelobe, Ngige’s former media aide, confirmed this on Thursday morning.
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Chukwuelobe clarified the situation in response to reports claiming that the ex-Anambra governor had been abducted.
“I have been receiving calls in the past hour from friends and journalists seeking the veracity of the news making the rounds that His Excellency, Dr. Chris Ngige, former governor of Anambra state and immediate past minister of labour and employment, ‘has been kidnapped, Ngige is with the EFCC. He was not ‘abducted’ or ‘kidnapped’,’” he posted on Facebook.
It is unclear why the agency detained Ngige as the anti-graft agency is yet to react to the development as of the time of filing this report.
Ngige is the second former minister from President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration to be taken into EFCC custody recently.
Abubakar Malami, the former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, is also in custody.
Malami had revealed that he is being investigated over the recovery of the “Abacha loot.”
“The EFCC informed me that its inquiry relates to an alleged duplication in the recovery of the $310 million Abacha loot, which by accrual of interest rose to about $322.5 million as at the time I eventually succeeded in recovering the funds for the federal Government and, flowing from that assumption, two allegations were majorly raised, namely; abuse of office, and Money laundering,” he had said in a statement.
He, however, dismissed the allegations as unfounded, unreasonable, and completely without merit, stating that they would fall apart when examined against facts and basic logic.
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