{"id":36020,"date":"2015-02-13T20:58:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T19:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=36020"},"modified":"2015-02-13T21:10:06","modified_gmt":"2015-02-13T20:10:06","slug":"efcc-arrests-murtala-nyakos-son-abdul-aziz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/efcc-arrests-murtala-nyakos-son-abdul-aziz\/","title":{"rendered":"EFCC Arrests Murtala Nyako\u2019s Son, Abdul-Aziz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Barely two weeks after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, declared former Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako and his son, Abdul-Aziz, wanted, operatives of the anti- graft agency, this morning arrested the younger Nyako in Gombe, Gombe State. He was immediately flown to Abuja where he is currently being grilled by a crack team of detectives who had been working on the Adamawa investigation for several months.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Abdul-Aziz, who was declared wanted by the EFCC in the case of stealing, abuse of office and money laundering, is currently telling investigators all he knows about illicit funds traced to companies where he has interest.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Specifically, he will have to explain how over N15billion funds belonging to Adamawa State was laundered into the accounts of five companies owned by him- Blue Opal Nigeria limited, Crust Energy Nigeria Limited, Blue Ribbon Multilinks Limited, Tower Assets Management Limited and Blue Ribbon Bureau De Change.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The funds was funned into the accounts of the companies from Adamawa State accounts domiciled in a new generation bank by the account officer who incidentally is the manager and an in-law to ex-governor Nyako.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The manager claimed he transferred the funds through verbal instruction from the former governor for purposes which are not stated.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Investigations revealed that from 2007 to 2011 within Nyako\u2019s tenure in office, before he was impeached in 2014, he had directed that all of the state owned accounts domiciled in various banks be transferred to the new generation bank .<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Abdul-Aziz\u2019s company, Blue Opal, is said to own, among other investments in Nigeria, an estate in Abuja, while his father\u2019s account officer owns several properties and investments scattered around Abuja, Yola and Kano.<\/span><br style=\"color: #000000;\" \/><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Former governor Nyako is still on the run.<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barely two weeks after the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, declared former Adamawa State Governor, Murtala Nyako and his son, Abdul-Aziz, wanted, operatives of the anti- graft agency, this&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exclusive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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