A mansion belonging to former Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Alhaji Abdullahi Dikko, has been seized by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC.
The property which is located at number at 1 Audu Ogbeh Street, Jabi, Abuja is said to be worth N2b, two billion naira.
Dikko is suspected to have fleeced the NCS of over N40b during his time as the Comptroller-General between August 2009 and August 2015.
Here is what a source at the EFCC said about the seizure of the mansion.
“The EFCC Act Section 71 (b) gives us the power to commence investigations into the property of any person if it appears to the EFCC that the person’s lifestyle and extent of properties are not justified by law.
“Section 28 says concerning those arrested under the Act, the commission will immediately trace and attach all the assets and seizures of such a person which have been acquired.
“Section 29 permits the assets of a person arrested under Section 28 to be seized by the state.
“Dikko was a customs officer and served for about 30 years. He has to explain where he got the money to buy a mansion of N2bn.”
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