Officials of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission have found a whopping N2billion to an account belonging to a
former commissioner in Niger State.
The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) has traced additional N2billion to the United Bank for Africa account of Mr. Kantigi Liman, a former Commissioner of Local Government in Niger State.
The suspect, Liman, may be declared wanted by the anti-graft agency. The discovery brings to N6 billion, the funds traced to
accounts held by the politician and companies linked to him.
The Commission had weeks earlier traced N4billion to two accounts in GTBank, both linked to Liman. The first account belongs to
Sadiq Air Travel Agency Limited and the second to Kantigi.
Sources at the Commission, however, disclosed that the politician who was a
governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2015 election has been elusive.
“He is on the run and all efforts to track him down have been futile.
“The next option left for the Commission is to declare him wanted,” the source said.
The source further disclosed that
investigations so far points in the direction that the funds were siphoned from the local
government joint account of Niger State.
EFCC desperately wants to confront him with the available evidence. He is believed to rake
in a monthly interest of over N33 million on the fixed deposits.
