Operatives of the Department of State Service (DSS) on Thursday, July 14, arrested Hajiya Morufat Obanikoro, wife of former Minister of Defence Musiliu Obanikoro’s following intelligence reports, The Nation reports.
She
was said to have been picked up in connection to the corruption
allegations against her husband, who is
wanted for questioning over the
N4.745 billion funds he reportedly received from the Office of the
National Security Adviser (ONSA).
The
ex-minister's wife was however released on bail after the DSS
transferred her to the Economic Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) - her
international passport was confiscated and asked to return on Monday,
July 18, for interrogation.
The DSS, according to
report, moved to arrest Mrs. Obanikoro following information that she
'quietly' arrived in the country last weekend from the United States.
“We
got a report that Mrs. Obanikoro had sneaked into the country from the
United States. After the confirmation of her travel log, an alert was
issued to all security agencies," a source told the newspaper.
“Following
intelligence sharing with the EFCC, the operatives of the DSS arrested
her in Lagos with some documents relating to the probe of the
N4.745billion slush funds from ONSA. Another source spoke of excitement
about Mrs. Obanikoro’s arrest because “some of the funds under
investigation were wired into her company, which is called MOB.
“She needs to explain to this commission what job she did to deserve such remittance into her account”.
The source further said: “Mrs.
Obanikoro had sued the EFCC for the enforcement of fundamental human
rights for allegedly harassing her tenants and in-laws during the course
of investigating her husband.”
The
N4.745 billion cash was sourced from the SAS Imprest Account of the
Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) under ex-NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd.) prior to the conduct of Ekiti State governorship poll on June 21, 2014.
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