Corruption: EFCC orders Borno commissioners to produce projects’ reports

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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has asked indicted commissioners and top government officials in Borno state to produce reports and video clips of projects they executed over the years.

They had earlier been questioned by the anti-graft agency, following petitions written against them by some persons in the state.

Sources in the various ministries and government cycles revealed that one of the commissioners was asked to cough out N5 billion allegedly found in his possession.

Also, a top government official said to have been in the habit of collecting N12 million every Monday in the past couple of months to run his office was ordered to cough out N200 million he allegedly obtained through corrupt means.

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