Air Chief Marshal Badeh has been one of the high ranking military officials charged in connection with the $2.1bn Dasukigate under which money meant to purchase hardware ended up in private pockets. As a result, several properties have been seized from him as they are regarded as being the proceeds of crime.
Putting the houses the good use, one of the properties located on Plot 6 Ogun River Crescent, Maitama, a highbrow area in Abuja, has been given to the Presidential Committee on the North-East Intervention headed by former defence minister Lt General Theophilus Danjuma. as a result, the EFCC, Keep Off sign written in red ink on the fence, had been wiped off and it is now an official government building.
Some gardeners and other domestic workers were seen clearing the grass and sweeping the compound, while the rooms have been converted into offices with desks set up at strategic positions. However, a second building still uncompleted, seized from Marshal Badeh, which is located directly opposite the one converted by the federal government, still has the EFCC inscription on its fence.
One of the workers at the converted building said: “The property was given to us by the government to work. I know that the EFCC seized the property some months ago but it was given to us to work.”
Marshal Badeh faces 10 counts of money laundering bordering on alleged fraudulent removal of about N3.97bn from the Nigerian Air Force account. He had denied ownership of the converted property, despite the fact that his belongings, including photographs, were found in it during a search by EFCC operatives.
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