Okonjo-Iweala on her way to Kuje Prison – EFCC

Emerging facts indicate that that the former Finance Minister Okonjo Ngozi Iweala would soon be on her way to Kuje Maximum Prison as the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has began the second phase of the $2.1 billion arms deal.
According to The Nation Newspaper report, the anti-graft agency has mapped out plans to quiz Onkojo-Iweala and some former Service Chiefs and serving military officers in connection with the Dasukigate scandal.
It was reportedly gathered that the EFCC has concluded with the first phase of the probe, which led to the arraignment of ex-National Security Adviser, NSA, Sambo Dasuki and 10 others.
Dasuki, has since been charged as the primary suspect in the arms deal fraud of about $2.1 billion and is currently cooling his heels in the security net.
The interrogation of the likes of Dasuki and the others now facing trial or about to be arraigned seems to have convinced the agency of the need to dig deeper than originally planned.
Earlier, a Nigeria’s leading human rights lawyer, Femi Falana SAN, has requested the International Criminal Court to “investigate allegations of crimes against humanity committed against the Nigerian people by some former and serving military as well as public officials and private persons who engaged in the criminal diversion of $8 billion earmarked to procure equipment for the armed forces to fight insurgency”
He had maintained that the  failure of  Okonjo-Iweala to prevent widespread and systematic corruption including the re-looting of the Abacha loot amounts to complicity under the Rome Statute, and therefore fits the legal requirements of a crime against humanity.”
While commenting on the alleged Former Finance Minster trial, the top EFCC source said “We are beginning the second phase of the ongoing investigation of the $2.1b arms deals. From the preliminary findings, the scandal is mind-boggling.
“We are going to question more high-profile serving and former public officers, including a former Minister of Finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on the release of some funds.
“We want the ex-Minister to shed more light on how about $322million was disbursed to the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA).
“Some serving and former military chiefs will have to respond to issues which we have already isolated for clarification.”
The EFCC Chairman Ibrahim Magu, earlier told the House of Representatives Committee on Financial Crimes while defending the agency’s 2016 budget that Okonjo-Iweala, former Minister of Petroleum Resources Mrs Diezani Alison-Madueke and one of her associates, Kola Aluko, are being investigated.
Magu also sought the backing of the committee to consider and approve “additional N500, 000 million to assist in our operational activities as more sectors of the economy may likely come under investigative activities during the year.”
Magu said the agency’s estimate is made up ofN11, 422, 991, 540.00 for capital, and N2, 999,245,761.00 as the overhead component of the recurrent. He requested that “the National Assembly should graciously support a planned recruitment of additional 750 employees of different cadres in 2016.”
Okonjo-Iweala has on December 11, 2016 released a memo, in which she exonerated herself from the Dasukigate.