The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Wednesday, June 3, 2015 questioned the former Governor of Borno State, Senator Ali Modu-Sheriff.
This makes Modu-Sheriff the second former governor the commission is interrogating this week.
The former governor arrived at the EFCC headquarters in Abuja at 6pm, was still at the commission’ offices till as late as 8.40pm.
The Anti-Graft Agency had on Monday, June 1, similarly questioned former governor of Adamawa State, Murtala Nyako, who arrived Nigeria from a prolonged foreign trip on Saturday.
It was learnt that Modu-Sheriff was helping the EFCC with an investigation into how a sum of over N300bn which his administration received from the Federation Account between 2003 and 2011 -when he was the governor of Borno State – got missing.
The EFCC , had in May, said that it had declared Modu-Sheriff wanted.
EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren earlier disclosed this during a press conference in Abuja, had said that the agency had summoned, Modu Sheriff to appear before it on Thursday, April 23, at 10am for questioning.
He had said that the former governor had yet to honour the invitation..
Mr. Uwujaren had stated, “We invited him (Sheriff) for questioning. As I speak to you, he did not honour that invitation. Once the commission invites a suspect in a matter and he fails to honour the invitation, options are opened to us. We might declare him wanted. Yes, we might do that.”
