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| Chibuike Achigbu |
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Friday
made good its threat to arrest the claimants of the $15 million bribe money,
which the former Delta State Governor, James Ibori, gave to the commission in
2007.
A Lagos-based businessman, Chibuike Achigbu, who claimed
last week that he was the owner of the controversial money was arrested by the
commission in Lagos and taken to Abuja on Friday for interrogation.
Achigbu, who is described as a player in the oil and gas
industry, is reported to have made useful statement to EFCC operatives.
One source told Saturday Vanguard that the businessman had
cooperated with the operatives of the commission interrogating him.
The source said, “We arrested the mastermind of the dubious
effort to claim the bribe sum and our officers have been interrogating him
since his arrival in Abuja.
“The man has cooperated with our operatives and made useful
statement on the circumstance surrounding the dubious attempt to claim the
money in the custody of the Central Bank of Nigeria.
“He may be granted Administrative bail and released from our
custody if he meets the conditions attached to the bail,” the source hinted.
Saturday Vanguard gathered that the operatives of the
commission were on the trail of all those who played various roles in a
desperate bid to reclaim the said money and that more arrests would soon be
made.
Asked to confirm how many persons had been detained in
connection with the offence, the source declined to comment further.
It was learnt that Achigbu had however made efforts to get
off the hook of the EFCC and could be released at the weekend.
When contacted, the Acting Head of Media and Publicity of
the EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed the arrest of Achigbu, adding that he
had made useful statement to the operatives.
Vanguard had exclusively reported on Tuesday that the
Economic Crimes and Financial Commission had begun investigating the brains
behind the spurious attempt to reclaim the $15 million bribe money.
The following day, the commission through Festus
Keyamo, obtained a court order authorising it to arrest Chibu
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