The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on Thursday captured the prompt past Governor of Anambra State, Willie Obiano, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
Hez learned that Obiano, who had been on the watch rundown of the EFCC, was captured while attempting to get onto a trip to the United States.
Review that the commission had in a letter to the Comptroller General of the Nigeria Immigration Service dated November 15, 2021, requested that movement put Obiano on a watch list and illuminate it whenever he is going out of the country from any of the International air terminals and different places of passage and exit.
The Commissioner for Information in Anambra, Don Adinuba, had, nonetheless, tried the EFCC, demanding that his supervisor would get back to the US – his unique base – in the wake of leaving office.
Nonetheless, scarcely hours in the wake of giving over to his replacement, Prof. Charles Soludo, it was discovered that Obiano advanced toward Lagos after which he continued to the global air terminal.
On locating him at 8.30 pm, movement officials were said to have alarmed the EFCC who quickly captured him and took him to their office.
Whenever reached on the phone, the representative for the EFCC, Mr. Wilson Uwujaren, affirmed the previous lead representatives’ capture, promising to give more subtleties later.
“It is valid. He was captured at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport around 8.30 pm,” said Uwujaren.