EFCC detains ex-NNPC boss Mele Kyari over alleged misappropriation of refinery maintenance funds
Mele Kyari, a former Group Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited (NNPCL), is currently being held at the headquarters of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over alleged misappropriation of funds linked to the maintenance of Nigeria’s refineries.
Sources within the commission told Peoples Gazette Wednesday night the misappropriated funds run into billions of Naira.
“Kyari is in our office. He’s currently being interrogated by our investigators,” a senior EFCC source told The Gazette Wednesday night, adding that “the probe is concerning the misappropriation of maintenance funds for the refineries while he was NNPCL’s boss.”
Mr Kyari, who had been on the EFCC’s watchlist, arrived at the anti-graft agency’s headquarters in Jabbi, Abuja, at about 3 p.m. on Wednesday.
A Federal High Court in Abuja had earlier frozen all bank accounts linked to Me Kyari following the demands of the EFCC.
Spokesperson for the EFCC, Dele Oyewale, did not respond to inquiries by our correspondent on Wednesday.
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