EFCC quizzes INEC staff over N120 million bribery allegations
The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC) investigators
interrogated 11 Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) staff over
N120 million bribes they allegedly
received from some politicians to
undermine the 2015 election conducted,
Daily Trust gathered yesterday.
EFCC sources said the staff who were all
electoral officers in charge of the 11 local
government areas of Gombe State,
reported at Gombe Zonal Office of the
EFCC, where they were quizzed over the
N120 million bribery allegation yesterday.
The source added that they had made
useful statements, and most had
confessed to receiving millions of naira
for their local governments from two of
them who negotiated and collected the
bribe on their behalf.
It was gathered that the electoral officers
for Akko and Gombe councils, Ahmed Ali
Biu, and Mohammed.B.Zannah, admitted
to have collected the bribe from one
Yunusa Ali Biri, also a retired electoral
officer who acted as Gombe coordinator
of bribes for electoral officers in the state.
Biri was known and addressed as
coordinator of an NGO, a euphemism or
code, used to cover the activities of the
two parties, Daily Trust learnt.
“At the meeting of the state coordinator,
Biu, and Zannah as electoral officers
lodged at Corner Alheri, opposite NNPC
mega station, in Gombe, where the
parties agreed to share the bribe per
polling unit in each local government and
part of the bribe should go to adhoc staff
employed and deployed to each polling
station across the State,” the source said.
“However, the Commission would have to
unravel the discrepancy in the amount
collected and the actual money disbursed
to the electoral officers. Some claimed
that the coordinator shortchanged them
because he gave only eighty-eight million
naira (N8m each) to the 11 local
governments in the state,” the source
stated.
The names of other electoral officers at
the EFCC office were: Godwin Maiyaki
Gambo (Balanga), Bukar Alone Benisheik
(Dukku), Jibril. B. Muhammed (Billiri),
Dunguma Musa Dogona (Funakaye),
Mohammed. A. Wanka (Kaltungo), Ishaku
Yusuf (Kwami), Suleiman Isawa (Nafada),
Babagana Malami (Shongom), and Nuhu
Samuel (Yamaltu/Deba).
Commission (EFCC) investigators
interrogated 11 Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) staff over
N120 million bribes they allegedly
received from some politicians to
undermine the 2015 election conducted,
Daily Trust gathered yesterday.
EFCC sources said the staff who were all
electoral officers in charge of the 11 local
government areas of Gombe State,
reported at Gombe Zonal Office of the
EFCC, where they were quizzed over the
N120 million bribery allegation yesterday.
The source added that they had made
useful statements, and most had
confessed to receiving millions of naira
for their local governments from two of
them who negotiated and collected the
bribe on their behalf.
It was gathered that the electoral officers
for Akko and Gombe councils, Ahmed Ali
Biu, and Mohammed.B.Zannah, admitted
to have collected the bribe from one
Yunusa Ali Biri, also a retired electoral
officer who acted as Gombe coordinator
of bribes for electoral officers in the state.
Biri was known and addressed as
coordinator of an NGO, a euphemism or
code, used to cover the activities of the
two parties, Daily Trust learnt.
“At the meeting of the state coordinator,
Biu, and Zannah as electoral officers
lodged at Corner Alheri, opposite NNPC
mega station, in Gombe, where the
parties agreed to share the bribe per
polling unit in each local government and
part of the bribe should go to adhoc staff
employed and deployed to each polling
station across the State,” the source said.
“However, the Commission would have to
unravel the discrepancy in the amount
collected and the actual money disbursed
to the electoral officers. Some claimed
that the coordinator shortchanged them
because he gave only eighty-eight million
naira (N8m each) to the 11 local
governments in the state,” the source
stated.
The names of other electoral officers at
the EFCC office were: Godwin Maiyaki
Gambo (Balanga), Bukar Alone Benisheik
(Dukku), Jibril. B. Muhammed (Billiri),
Dunguma Musa Dogona (Funakaye),
Mohammed. A. Wanka (Kaltungo), Ishaku
Yusuf (Kwami), Suleiman Isawa (Nafada),
Babagana Malami (Shongom), and Nuhu
Samuel (Yamaltu/Deba).
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