18th February, 2022
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has returned N1.55B to the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS.
The fund is part of monies which some commercial banks fraudulently withheld and refused to transmit to their Treasury Single Account, TSA, since 2015.
The Commission had earlier on September 16, 2021 released N1.3 billion, also recovered from the banks to the agency.
In another statement, the EFCC spokesman Wilson Uwujaren denied a report alleging that a certain Jafaru Mohammed whom it claimed stole N10.9billion from the NIA Ikoyi loot is an accountant of the EFCC.
“The claim is false and intended to mislead the public”, Uwujaren said.
“For the avoidance of doubt, the EFCC has no accountant by name, Jafaru Mohammed and could not have appointed him to serve in another agency.
“It is infantile to suggest that the Commission would appoint an accountant for the National Intelligence Agency, NIA, which is not a department of the EFCC.
“The public is enjoined to discountenance the report which is dripping with mischief for which Peoples Gazette has become notorious”.