The State Security Service (SSS), yesterday at the Government
House, Makurdi, Benue State, arrested three fake officials of the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) who allegedly came to defraud Governor
Gabriel Suswam of the sum of $300 million.
The suspects are
Mark Gbaa, alias Nasiru Nasamu, an indigene of Tombu village in Buruku local
government area of Benue State, Ashon Bulus Agutom and Nuhu Bawa, all of Jos
East local government area of Plateau State.
They had claimed to
be officials of the EFCC detailed to the state to collect the said amount from
Governor Suswam for his “unresolved cases” with the commission.
In Makurdi
yesterday, the director of SSS in Benue, Mr Rasheed Adediran, who paraded the
suspects, said two of them, Bulus, an employee of the College of Health
Technology, Pankshin and Nuhu, a mobile policeman in the Nigerian Mobile Police
headquarters, Abuja, had come to the Government House, Makurdi on February 21,
2013 and claimed to be personnel of the EFCC.
Adediran said the
two suspects were held at the Government House when they disclosed that it was
one Mark Gbaa, a resident of Jos that sent them to the governor to collect
money meant for resolving his numerous unsolved cases with the anti-graft
agency.
He stated that it
was the arrest of the duo that led to the nabbing of their gang leader, Gbaa,
in Jos. He further said that one person was still at large and that
investigation into the matter was on going.
However, Gbaa told
journalists that he was a consultant on conflict resolution and that he had
held talks with Governor Suswam who, he claimed, gave him approval to do
business with him. He confessed sending members of his gang with a written
letter to the governor, but said he was never an official of the EFCC.
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