‘Fraud’: Fatima Sanda, NAHCON spokesperson, others arrested by EFCC

Fatima Sanda, the general public affairs director of the Nationwide Hajj Fee of Nigeria, NAHCON, had been amongst officers of the Fee who had been arrested by the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC) for alleged fraud and cash laundering.

Fatima Sanda and three different NAHCON officers had been arrested on Tuesday on the Fee’s headquarters situated at 991/992 Zakaria Maimalari Road, Central Enterprise District, Abuja.

The operatives arrived on the fee in a white bus at precisely 11 a.m. on Tuesday with a sound warrant of arrest.

Fatima Usara Sanda and the three different officers are at present being interrogated on the EFCC workplace headquarters in Abuja.

EFCC had been investigating NAHCON and its ex-chairman, Jalal Arabi and the secretary, Abdullahi Kontagora, over the alleged mismanagement of the N90 billion 2024 Hajj subsidy.

The anti-graft company mentioned its investigation revealed that from the N90 billion, Arabi fraudulently overpaid himself and others the mandatory operational value.

“The chairman was entitled to SR15,929 however he acquired SR50,000; three commissioners who had been meant to get SR15,929 every obtained SR 40,000 every. The secretary acquired SR30,000 as a substitute of SR14,336. Administrators/Chief of Employees obtained SR30,000 as a substitute of the SR2,550 they had been entitled to. A complete of SR314,098 had been recovered from all of them.” EFCC had grilled Arabi for hours on July 29, 2024, and launched him on bail.

Recall that operatives of the Impartial Corrupt Practices and Different Associated Offences Fee (ICPC) had additionally raided the headquarters of the fee over the alleged mismanagement of the N90 billion intervention fund for the 2024 Hajj.

When contacted, EFCC Spokesperson Dele Oyewale promised to supply particulars on the time of submitting this report.