As part of the ongoing investigation into corruption associated with the office of the national security adviser, several high profile PDP officials have been arrested and prosecuted by the EFCC. Alhaji Mohammed and his son have now been charged at a Federal High Court, Abuja.
Although the matter is yet to be assigned to a specific judge, the former minister and his son are likely to be docked on a four-count money laundering charge on Tuesday, December 29 or Wednesday December 30. Abbah Mohammed is alleged to have received N600m from the national security adviser's office in the name of Bam Properties.
Yesterday, the EFCC arrested Abbah ahead of his arraignment with his father. However, Alhaji Mohammed who at different times headed the Nigerian Customs Service and was defence minister, was said to be on admission in an Abuja hospital for an undisclosed illness last night.
He was said to be too weak to report to the EFCC in preparation for his arraignment but the commission is monitoring Alhaji Mohammed’s health status. He has been implicated in the N31bn slush funds distributed to some PDP stalwarts for the 2015 election campaign.
Former national security adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki, a former minister of state for finance, Ambassador Bashir Yuguda and eight others are currently on trial in two separate courts in the High Court of Justice of the Federal Capital Territory. In his statement, Alhaji Yaguda admitted paying about N300m into the account of BAM Properties, which was provided by Haliru Mohammed.
It was gathered that the slush funds in BAM Properties’ account had been traced to the ex-PDP national chairman and his son. It was learnt that about N600m was credited to Abbah and he would have to explain in court how he came about it and the purpose.
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