After more than a month of detention, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission will soon arraign embattled former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, a former Minister of Finance, Senator Nenadi Usman, and two others on accusations of N1.5 billion scam.
A source at the anti-graft agency told Punch Newspapers that the two former Ministers, who served in the Goodluck Jonathan Presidential campaign organization, will be charged with a 17-count charge of fraud.
“We have filed charges against Fani-Kayode, Usman, Yusuf and a company, Joint Trust Dimensions Limited. Yusuf was the signatory to the account of Joint Trust Dimensions Limited. They will be arraigned before a Federal High Court in Lagos this week.”
While Usman served as the director of finance in the campaign organization, Fani-Kayode was in charge of the publicity efforts of the campaign.
The money for which the duo are currently being prosecuted for is said to have come from an account belonging to the Office of the National Security Adviser at the Central Bank of Nigeria.
The said money was allegedly transferred to the account of JTDL from where Usman allegedly transferred N840 million into the Zenith Bank account of Fani-Kayode.
The money was paid to Fani-Kayode at three different times.
The first payment was on February 19, 2015 when N350 million was transferred to him, N250 million was also paid into the account on February 19, 2015, and on March 19, 2015, N240 million was paid into his bank account.
The former Minister of Finance is said to have returned N23 million to the anti-graft agency and two of her properties have also been seized by the commission.
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