WANTED Ex-Custom Boss, Dikko Returns, Confesses Ownership of $50m Dubai Properties

The declared Wanted by the anti-graft agency, the Economic And Financial Crime Commission, EFCC, former  Comptroller-General of the Nigerian Customs, Abdullahi Inde Dikko has finally confessed the ownership of $50 million Dubai properties as he returns, Nigeria anti-corruption investigators currently in discussions with him, Sahara Reporters says

Mr. Dikko returned to Nigeria looking gaunt and frail after he was declared wanted by the Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), reportedly suffering from prostate cancer said to be at the terminal stage. Investigators said Dikko has vehemently denied owning properties anywhere else in the world except a huge house in Abuja and a multi-billion Naira farm in his home state of Katsina.

A source involved in the negotiations said Dikko was not arrested and hurled into detention because the authorities are worried that if harshly treated, he might die in detention, making it harder to recover his assets from Dubai.

It would be recalled that a few years ago, this website called Mr. Dikko a certificate forger, and ran several stories to that effect.

Alleged Secret Recruitments Of Atiku, Buhari Children and Allies, CBN Breaks Silence

Godwin Emefiele

The Central Bank of Nigeria has reacted to the public outcry of an illegal recruitment exercise allegedly carried out by the apex bank. Sahara Reporters on Tuesday March 15th, reported that the bank employed the children of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, IGP Solomon Arase and others to some key positions in the bank.

The list of beneficiaries of the CBN’s secret job recruitment includes a daughter of former Vice President Abubakar Atiku, a son of Mamman Daura, a nephew of President Buhari and one of the closest members of the president’s inner circle, a son of the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, a daughter of former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Ghali Na’aba, also daughter of the Inspector General of Police, Solomon Arase, a son of the Minister of Internal Affairs, Abdurahman Danbazzau and at least 86 others.

This report has sparked up public outcry as many believed that the bank should have publicized the job openings for many other people to apply.

However in an interview with Premium Times yesterday March 16th, the CBN’s acting Director of Corporate Communications, Isaac Okorafor said the bank did nothing illegal or wrong in hiring without advertising.

“In the last two years, we have had cause to recruit specialists, and what the law says is that if we are going for that kind of recruitment we should apply for waiver, so that we can do targeted recruitment" 

He said the bank obtained waiver from the Federal Character Commission. 

“The other issue is that there are states that are not well represented (in the CBN), and in this case, we focus on those states to recruits people of certain classes that we used to cover the shortfall in those states,” he said

Monumental Fraud At Customs: WANTED Ex-Comptroller General Strikes Plea Bargain Deal With FG

Inde Dikko

Nigerian Pilot - Sudden re-appearance of immediate past Comptroller-General of Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, Inde Dikko, who was sacked by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration and later disappeared from public radar in Abuja headquarters of the service last week, may not be unconnected with a-yet-to-be-perfected tripartite agreement among relevant stakeholders to give him some soft landing in allegations of improprieties against him.

The stakeholders include the federal government, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and Dikko himself.

Mid last week, the sacked customs boss made a sudden appearance at the Abuja headquarters of the service for a brief meeting with his successor, Hammed Ali, a retired Army Colonel.

According to reliable presidency sources who should know, Dikko “is supposed to be reporting to the EFCC on a daily basis by now, going by an understanding reached by all the stakeholders recently.”

The source said that a fallout of President Buhari’s recent trip to Saudi Arabia and Qatar was a high-powered meeting held by the stakeholders.

“At that meeting, it was agreed that the former Customs CG would make substantial returns of his allegedly stolen wealth to the federal coffers while he would await being charged to court by the EFCC, where he would enter a plea bargain that would see him regain his freedom unperturbed when the court okays the plea.”

Another source who confirmed the development told Nigerian Pilot that in line with the agreement reached, Dikko ought to be reporting to the EFCC daily ahead of his eventual arraignment by the commission.

He added that the fact that the federal government was yet to fine-tune the needed arrangement could account for the seeming delay in Dikko’s arraignment.

Following allegations of corrupt practices all through his tenure as Customs boss, Dikko was fired from office on August 15 last year.

Upon conclusion of their investigation of his alleged wrongdoings, operatives of the EFCC last January 8 stormed Dikko’s residence at Jabi in Abuja and conducted a thorough search.

According to sources within the anti-graft agency, the search took several hours and ended at about dusk. However, the agents did not meet Dikko at home.

He was later alleged to have escaped to Dubai and some other foreign countries, causing the federal government to threaten to employ the services of the INTERPOL to arrest him.

TOP SECRET: Wanted Ex-Custom Boss, Dares Buhari, Sneaked Into Custom House Abuja

Abdullahi Inde Dikko

The Declared wanted immediate past Comptroller-General of Customs, CGC, Alhaji Abdullahi Inde Dikko, sacked by President Muhammadu Buhari, sneaked into the Abuja headquarters of the service yesterday for what insiders disclosed as a “brief meeting” with his successor, Col. Hammed Ali, (rtd).

The former CGC had disappeared from public radar since his residence at Jabi in the Federal Capital Territory was raided by the operatives of the Economic and financial Crimes Commission, EFCC in January this year.

Although no further information could be gathered as to his mission to the Customs House, Abuja, Nigerian Pilot recalls that, following allegations of corrupt practices all through his tenure as Customs boss, he was fired from office on August 15 last year.

Upon conclusion of their investigation of his alleged wrongdoings, the operatives of the EFCC on January 8 stormed Dikko’s residence at Jabi in Abuja and conducted a thorough search.

According to sources within the anti-graft agency, the search took several hours and ended about the dusk. However, the agents did not meet Dikko at home.

The EFCC was allegedly looking for huge sums of money, believed to be stashed in a residence owned by the former customs chief. He was later alleged to have escaped to Dubai, United Arab Emirate, causing the federal government to threaten to employ the services of the INTERPOL to arrest him.

Source: Nigerian Pilot