EFCC to arraign former Aviation Minister, Hadi Sirika, others Thursday

Hadi Sirika, the former minister of aviation, is scheduled to be charged by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on Thursday before Justice Sylvanus Oriji of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Maitama. 

The six-count amended allegation against Sirika, a minister in the previous president Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, would be brought to court. 

Along with his daughter Fatima, Jalal Hamma, and Al-Duraq Investment Ltd., he will be charged with N2.7 billion worth of office abuse. 

The former minister was arrested in Abuja on April 23 due to EFCC investigations into alleged financial misbehavior, “including fraudulent contracts awarded by the Ministry under his watch.”

After being invited by the Commission’s Abuja Zonal Command for the purported contract misconduct, Sirika was quickly questioned and taken into custody at the Commission’s Formella Street, Wuse 2 Zonal headquarters.

“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 anonymity, told NAN.

The source added that the minister had spoken with investigators before his detention, and the EFCC had been looking into the claimed contract scams during his tenure. 

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