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More trouble for ex-DSS boss Daura, as CSO calls for probe into two foreign accounts

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More trouble for ex-DSS boss Daura, as CSO calls for probe into two foreign accounts

There seem to be no respite yet for the embattled sacked former Director General of the Department of State Service (DSS) as a civil society organisation, has called on the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to probe two foreign accounts allegedly linked to him.

The CSO, Coalition Against Corruption and Bad Governance (CACOBAG) said it has perfected a petition with documentary evidence it wants to submit to the EFCC on Tuesday, to investigate the link between Lawal Daura and Auwalu Kallamu.

CACOBAG, in a statement signed by its Chairman, Alhaji Toyin Raheem, said it supports Daura’s sack, saying it will pave the way for the unraveling of a lot of graft allegations that have been swirling around the security chief for some time.

The group said in the statement: “We have been calling on EFCC for some weeks now to unravel the mystery face behind the name Auwalu Kallamu, which is a pseudo name used to operate two foreign accounts into which some part of over £3 million allegedly paid by the Nigerian government to secure the release of some of the schoolgirls abducted from Chibok and Dapchi towns in Borno and Yobe has been traced to.

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“We are glad to tell Nigerians that our formal petition with documentary evidence is now ready and will be submitted to the EFCC on Tuesday in Abuja so that the anti-graft agency can have a lead to work on in unraveling the link between Daura and the name Auwalu Kallamu.”

According to CACOBAG, it has information that foreign investigators have been probing alleged diversion of millions of Euros by a Nigerian security chief using the pseudo name of Auwalu Kallamu as part of payments to secure the release of some of the abducted girls.

The foreign intelligence was said to have raised the red flag on how suspected proceeds from over £3million ransom funds were stashed at Lamda Privat Bank in the Swiss-German principality, Liechtenstein, through some accomplices.

 

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