EFCC raids the office of the former Vice President, Namadi Sambo and $50,000 was found

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,
Monday, raided the Abuja office of the former Vice
President, Namadi Sambo and seized $50,000 found
in his safe.
The raid was carried out on the building which houses
a top European High Commission’s Visa Processing
Centre opposite the

National Defence College, Abuja.
A source revealed that the operatives broke into the
Safe kept by the former vice president and removed
whatever valuable they found, including top branded
wrist watches, assets declaration forms, and list of
landed property.
The raid, it was learnt followed the discovery that
one of Sambo’s aide, known as Daboh, was found to
have collected the sum of N25 million from the
embattled National Publicity Secretary of the PDP,
Olisah Metuh, as part of the sum he got from the
former NSA, Dasuki Sambo.
Although Daboh was arrested on January 11 by the
EFCC and later released after taking statement from
him, the operatives swooped on the ex-VP’s office on
Saturday with the hope of extracting ‘incriminating
evidence’.
The raid took place a few days after Sambo had
moved some vital documents from his residence to the
office in the Central Business District, in many bags,
known as “Ghana-Must-Go, which were thought to
contain foreign currency.
NigerianEye learnt that the search was informed by
the unusual movement of hefty bags into the office
of Sambo’s Manyatha Company on Saturday.
Although Sambo has been on EFCC radar over funds
allegedly collected from ONSA, the relocation of the
suspicious bags from the home of the ex-VP to the
office made the EFCC to act swiftly.
A source, who spoke in confidence, said: “The
ongoing investigation of $2.1 billion arms cash under
ex-NSA Sambo Dasuki has been extended to the
former VP. The search started on Saturday till the
early hours of Monday.
“Apart from getting N20 million monthly from
ONSA, we got tip-off on movement of some bags
loaded with hard currency.
“All we did was to investigate this clue by searching
the ex-VP’s office in a cautious manner and in the
full glare of the employees.
“At the appropriate time, we will inform the public
of our findings.”
Responding to a question, the highly-placed source
added: “We are also looking at the circumstances
behind the N20 million grant allocated to the ex-
VP’s office by the ONSA.
“Ordinarily, a sitting VP has a budget for his
office. It is like subjugating your office to a junior
public officer if you have to be taking N20 million
from the Office of National Security Adviser
(ONSA).
“We cannot be blind to this important aspect of
monthly grant to a VP by the former security
adviser. Some former presidential aides are also under
investigation.”
A source close to the former VP confirmed the search
of the office in Abuja’s Central Business District
(CBD).
The source said: “The EFCC operatives invaded the
Manyatha Company of the former Vice President on
Saturday, broke the doors. The operatives did not
come with any warrant and when they left, there
was no record of inventories.
“What happened was that the ex-VP moved some
documents in Ghana-Must-Go bags from his house to
the office in the Central Business District. I think
they got false alarm that dollars were stuffed in the
bags and decided to raid the office on the sixth
floor.
“We share the same office complex with the British
Visa Section. Do you know that since Saturday, the
policemen brought by the EFCC are still in the
office?
“The EFCC asked the company to repair its doors
before the police could leave the place.”
On the alleged N20 million collected monthly from
ONSA, the source added: “It is a statutory
subvention for the Office of the Vice President.
When ex-President Goodluck Jonathan was VP, he
was getting it. The same subvention was given to ex-
VP Atiku Abubakar.
“Ex-VP Sambo is ready to defend the subvention
when necessary. He did not steal public funds and he
did not get campaign funds from ONSA.”