FAMILY BIZ! EFCC Grills Obanikoro’s Daughter Over N800m Transaction, Seizes Her Passport

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has beamed its interrogative light on the daughter of a former Minister, Obanikoro.

EFCC operatives grilled Shalewa Obanikoro, the daughter of a former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, on Friday.
 
She was being grilled over a transaction of N800m she allegedly made.
 
According to The Punch, Investigators revealed that Shalewa was grilled at the Lagos office of the EFCC for several hours alongside her mother, Moroophat.
 
An impeccable source at the anti-graft agency said as part of investigations into the N4.7bn allegedly paid into the company account of Obanikoro’s sons – Babajide and Gbolahan – by the Office of the National Security Adviser, the commission started investigating some other members of the family.
 
The detective said, “Obanikoro’s wife came to our office on Friday morning as part of investigations into the N4.7bn paid into Sylvan McNamara, a company owned by her sons. During investigation, we stumbled on the account of an oil company. We then discovered that Obanikoro’s daughter was a signatory to the account of the oil company and that millions of naira was paid into the account at different times.

“We then invited the daughter and she came to meet us at the office. During investigations, we found out that the daughter gave a standing order to the bank that N800m should be moved into another account. We wondered why such a young girl would have access to such funds so we started quizzing her. This is a whole new dimension to the case and we will continue to investigate to find out if it is related to the arms probe or not.”
 
Obanikoro and his sons, who are citizens of the United States, have remained in the US for over a year. However, the EFCC swiftly seized the US passport of Shalewa to prevent her from towing the path of her father and brothers.
 
The investigator said, “We were told that she was planning on travelling to the US soon so we swiftly seized her passport because she is vital to our investigation. However, we told her to be coming from home.”
 
Apart from the N4.7bn arms scam rocking the Obanikoro family, it will be recalled that MOB Integrated Services Ltd, a company headed by Obanikoro’s second son, Gbolahan, was implicated by the Aigboje Imokhuede-led Presidential Committee on Verification and Reconciliation in 2012.
 
The company was said to have made three transactions valued at N5, 393, 592,906.62. However, investigations revealed that the company only made one transaction valued at N3, 261,263,992.52 verified as legitimate. The difference of over N2bn was said to have been embezzled as MOB did not make the needed oil supply.
 
However, sources at the commission told The Punch that after Obanikoro was appointed the Minister of State for Defence, the case was mysteriously suspended indefinitely.
 
The latest revelation may be the missing piece of the puzzle, detectives believe.
 
However, the former minister said in a statement that his wife had high blood pressure and other heart-related ailments and asked security agents not to drag her into the arms probe as she knew nothing about the case.
 
He said, “We are using this medium to call on the officials of the EFCC to desist from persecuting an innocent woman who has no dealings at all with any of the businesses that they are investigating and totally unaware of the alleged transactions.

“For emphasis, the innocent woman has a history of high blood pressure and heart-related ailments and as such should not be dragged into their biased and politicised investigations.”
 
Obanikoro also denied media reports that his wife was arrested with incriminating evidence…

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Posted: at 16-07-2016 01:17 PM (8 years ago) | Addicted Hero

some people are too heartless in Nigeria......what is your family going to do with all these money

Posted: at 16-07-2016 01:34 PM (8 years ago) | Hero

Wic kind family is this?

Buhari should just chase them out of country

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Posted: at 16-07-2016 01:55 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

Mak all  of dem vomit our moni

Posted: at 16-07-2016 02:41 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

The poor masses can't even feed 2 squre meal in a day but dem dey use our money do nonsense

Posted: at 16-07-2016 03:11 PM (8 years ago) | Upcoming

2 bad............ Obanikoro is not a Nigerian, so are his sons and daughters, can they do these nonsense in the USA?, its high time Nigeria stop Dual nationality, it does not favor us. Obanikoro was born in the U.S, he was impregnating his wife and having all his children in the U-S, but came 2 naija and loot and equally ran 2 U.S 4 refuge.

Posted: at 16-07-2016 03:52 PM (8 years ago) | Newbie

i no fit shout.... what matters now is all this catching , exposing should be well utilized once recovered, and to create fear for the next pple that want to indulge in such act, the caught ones should be jailed, like its on going in china... else, its just a war that will always re occur, 98% of politician and aspirants have one aim, to get rich onces elected...

 jailing them harshly will surely make alot of pple rethink, also all those benefit/allowances they get should be scrapped off... they should live on their salary.

Posted: at 16-07-2016 04:35 PM (8 years ago) | Upcoming

na wa ooh

Posted: at 16-07-2016 04:58 PM (8 years ago) | Gistmaniac

And all dis yeye armrobbers go close dia eye 4 dis dia fellow tifs. Dem go leave dem go dey worry inocent ppl wey get only small change 2 manage with dia famly.

Posted: at 16-07-2016 06:12 PM (8 years ago) | Upcoming

show me her picture

Posted: at 16-07-2016 09:31 PM (8 years ago) | Grande Master