The gale of arrests as part of
the President Muhammadu Buhari’s determination to probe the administration of
his predecessor, former President Goodluck Jonathan caught up with the
immediate past Director General of the Nigerian Maritime Administration and
Safety Agency (NIMASA), Patrick Ziakede Akpobolokemi, today.
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| Patrick Ziakede Akpobolokemi former Director General, NIMASA |
He was picked up by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) in Lagos this morning and is currently being detained at the
Lagos office of the commission in Ikoyi. This is coming exactly two weeks after
he was fired from his post.
A source in NIMASA revealed that “he was taken in this morning around
10am,” adding that “some of our other officials have also been summoned while
EFCC operatives have been conducting discreet investigation here. There is
tension everywhere. One of our people just returned from EFCC and he told me
the former DG is still there, sweating profusely as he was being questioned by
investigators.”
The source said the EFCC operatives who visited at NIMASA headquarters
queried some curious multibillion naira transactions approved by Akpobolokemi,
especially during the dying days of the last administration.
These include a whooping N13 billion allegedly spent on the acquisition
of land for the permanent site of the Nigerian Maritime University in Delta
State, and other transactions they believed were fraudulent, such as transfers
of millions of dollars from NIMASA accounts to other accounts”.
Though spokesperson of the EFCC could not be reached for comments as he
did not answer multiple calls as well as a text message to his telephone, an
official in the prosecution unit of the EFCC in Lagos confirmed that
Akpobolokemi’s arrest.
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