Sirika, Daughter, Arrive Abuja Court Over N2.7bn Fraud

The immediate-past Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, and his daughter, Fatimah, have arrived at the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja for their arraignment over alleged financial misdeeds.

Sirika and his daughter are being arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over an alleged N2.7bn fraud in connection with the botched Nigerian Air project.

They are to be arraigned on six counts before Justice Sylvanus Oriji.

GWG.ng on Wednesday reported that the EFCC will arraign Jalal  Hamma and Al-Duraq Investment Ltd, alongside Sirika and his daughter for abuse of office to the tune of the amount above.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), had highlighted that as part of EFCC investigations into the financial malfeasance allegedly committed by the former minister, “ including fraudulent contracts awarded by the ministry under his watch, had on April 23 detained him in Abuja’’.

Sirika was invited by the Abuja Zonal Command of the EFCC on the alleged contract malfeasance and was promptly interrogated and detained at the Formella Street, Wuse 2 Zonal office of the Commission before the decision to take him to court.

“The former minister (Sirika) was invited for questioning by investigators handling the alleged contract frauds under his watch in the ministry. He honoured the invitation and has been detained as I am talking with you,” a source in the EFCC who pleaded anonymous told NAN’’.

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