Bafarawa was being interrogated for his alleged role in
transferring money from the office of the National Security Adviser, between
December 2014 and May 2015.
This is coming just as the former Minister of State for
Finance, Ambassador Bashir Yuguda, has spent his second day in the custody of
EFCC.
A media report on Channels Television monitored by ITRealms,
the Head, Media at EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, noted that Chief Dokpesi invitation
by EFCC was in connection with money disbursed from the office of the former NSA
Dasuki.
According to EFCC spokesman, there was no explanation about
what the money was meant for and it was pathetic that the office of the NSA was
used as “a warehouse to dish out money to people.”
He described the transfers as very worrisome in that
hard-earned money is taken from the coffers of the country to private
individual without any major project attached to them.
When contacted by Channels Tv, lawyer to Dokpesi, Mr Mike
Ozekhome (SAN), said that it is a return to authoritarian regime as only last
week Daar Communications Holdings, not Dokpesi, was invited by the EFCC to
explain alleged contracts to the company from the office of the former National
Security Adviser and that tax payments and other documents should be supplied
to EFCC.
“I do not regard this as an arrest. If you are invited by
the EFCC that is not the same thing as an arrest. We got this information
through a mere phone call. There is no warrant of arrest and as a
well-respected obedient nationalist, Chief Dokpesi decided to go and answer the
invitation,” Ozekhome said.
Correspondent/GEE
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