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EFCC probes Saraki’s aide, wife over ghost worker scam
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has begun “taking necessary action” on a petition against Mr. Bamikole Omishore, the Special Adviser on International Relations to Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and his wife, Abiola Aiyegbayo-Omishore, over an alleged ghost worker scam.
The spokesman for the EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, revealed this to our correspondent on the telephone.
Uwujaren said, “I can confirm that the petition is before the commission and receiving necessary attention.”
The probe, it was learnt, was part of a wider investigation into allegations that lawmakers and their aides diverted billions of naira from the National Assembly coffers under the guise that the money was meant for the payment of non-existent workers.
Documents submitted to the EFCC showed that Omishore, who has been working with Saraki since 2015, allegedly listed his wife as a grade level 12 employee of the National Assembly, though she is a nurse in the United States.
Punch, April 21, 2018
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