Dasuki gate, Ekiti gate: Ex-Minister's Sons Obanikoro on EFCC Radar
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) is keeping a close eye on two sons of Musiliu Obanikoro, the former Minister of State for Defense, over an alleged huge amount of money transferred to their accounts from funds budgeted for the procurement of weapons and other equipment for the country’s military, Sahara Reporters reports. According to a source who spoke to the media outfit, the EFCC had traced N4.745 billion to the bank account of Sylvan McNamara Limited, a company in which the former minister’s two sons, Ibrahim Babajide and Gbolahan Olatunde Obanikoro, have major interest. It was gathered that the alleged funds were paid in batches into the company’s account number 0026223714 with Diamond Bank. The source citing some instance alleged that on June 5, 2014, N200 million was transferred into the account of the firm owned by Obanikoro’s two sons. While on June 16, 2014, N2 billion was transferred into the account from the CBN account maintained by the Office o