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Fear Grips Jibrin Over Possible Arrest, As EFCC Likely To Reopen N15bn 2012 Fraud Case.
Contrary to claims by former chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations, Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin that he was invited to shed light on his petition, indications emerged yesterday that he was also interrogated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over several petitions brought against him.
It was gathered that Jibrin was invited by the anti-graft agency to answer questions over allegations of money laundering, fraudulent diversion of contracts in his Bebeji/Kiru Federal Constituency and other sundry petitions against him.
This is just as Jibrin has dragged the leadership of the House and the Nigerian Police before the Federal High Court, in what some of his colleagues described as an action borne out of fear that he might be suspended from the lower chamber of the National Assembly.
Sources in the commission said the EFCC may soon arraign Jibrin before a court over charges of fraud, corruption, diversion of public funds, money laudering, among others.
It was learnt that the anti-graft agency might have resurrected the money laundering case against Jibrin which was dropped in 2012 in a rather controversial circumstances.
Jibrin was arraigned along with former Nasarawa state Governor Aliyu Akwe Doma over N15 billion money laundering allegations.
His involvement in the case had to do with over N2 billion allegedly laundered through his company Green Forest Investment Limited when Doma was Nasarawa state governor.
Jibrin, according to sources close to him, is having sleepless nights since his appearance before investigative panels of the Nigeria Police Force and the EFCC because “the picture is now clear to him that the hunter is being hunted by his past deeds.
“Upon receiving signals that he (Jibrin) may soon be charged to court by the EFCC, he rushed to court on Thursday August 10, 2016 seeking injunction restraining the Police and other anti-graft agencies from arresting or charging him to court”, one of the sources said.