EFCC traces N603 million to civil servant's wife's account

N603 million naira was traced by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to the wife of a Mr. Josiah Habu who is the director of Bioresources Development Centre Bayelsa.

Investigations were carried out and it was discover that Esther had many contacts of BIODEC members all across the country which was very suspicious.

The Efcc spokesmen, Mr. Wilson Uwajaren, said that a sum of 70 million was also traced to her husband.

The director general of NBDA, Professor Lucy Ogbadu was also arrested as he was also linked to the scam. It was reported that he received a sum of 27 million naira from the slush fund.

The EFCC statement read in part:

"Operatives of the EFCC have arrested the serving Director-General of NABDA, Prof Lucy Ogbadu, for her alleged involvement in criminal conspiracy and diversion of public funds to the tune of N23m. 

“Ogbadu was arrested on Wednesday, June 28 in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, following her alleged link with the Bayelsa State Director of BIODEC, Mr Josiah Habu, who is being investigated by the EFCC in a case of fraudulent diversion of the sum of N75m. 

“Investigations by the EFCC showed that Ogbadu allegedly received the sum of N23m through a bank account belonging to the wife of Habu, Mrs Esther Habu, and admitted same in a voluntary statement made to the EFCC. 

“Further investigations have also shown that Mrs Habu is one of the contractors with BIODEC, Odi, Bayelsa State, and a total sum of N603m has been traced to her in different deals involving over 20 directors of BIODEC across the country.”







































































































































































































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