An officer of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Kaduna zonal office, has reportedly disappeared after allegedly absconding with over $30,000 and other valuable exhibits.
This latest development comes after the anti-graft agency early this month, said it had detained 10 officers in Lagos over theft of operational items they could not account for.
Though, insider sources revealed that the officers stole gold bars worth over N1 billion as well as over $180,000.
Meanwhile, in the latest scandal according to Daily Nigerian, a staff of the commission, simply identified as Polycarp, suddenly disappeared when he failed to account for “over $30,000”.
Insider source who doesn’t want to be quoted revealed that the zonal director, Benedict Ubi, a couple of weeks ago ordered for an audit of the directorate’s exhibit room, following the internal heist that occurred in Lagos.
According to the source, when Mr Polycarp received the directive that the exhibit room would be audited, he took an excuse to ease himself and took to his heels.
“Immediately after the order for the audit was given, he took an excuse to ease himself. Efforts were made to contact him but all his telephone lines were switched off.
“This is only what the preliminary audit on foreign currency shows. There are chances that more could be uncovered after a thorough audit of the exhibit room,” a source familiar with the development said.
News Band understand that a manhunt has been launched by the agency to trace the fleeing officer’s whereabouts.
In 2019, an official of the commission was indicted for receiving $20,000 as bribe from a business man at Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos state.
Despite his confession to the crime, he was reinstated by the then acting chairman of the commission, Ibrahim Magu.
The matter was not made public.
