WHY EFCC ARRESTED LAWAL JAAFARU ISA.

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission
(EFCC) has quizzed All Progressive Congress
(APC) chieftain, Lawal Jafaru Isa.
Brig. General Jafaru Isa (retired) was a former
military administrator of Kaduna State and a
known associate of President Muhammadu
Buhari.
EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed the
arrest of Jafaru Isa in a sting operation
Wednesday night at his residence in Abuja.
Uwujaren did not give reason why the former
military governor was arrested.
Isa contested as the governorship candidate of
the defunct Buhari party CPC in Kano State in
2011. He was also one of the 19 members of the
Buhari Transition Committee led by Ahmed Joda.
A source told Daily Trust that Isa was arrested
because he had failed to honour an invitation to
report to the head office of the anti-graft agency.
The source said the agency wanted him to
explain the circumstances in which he allegedly
collected about N100 million from the Office of
the National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki.
It was gathered that Jafaru Isa is being
questioned about whether he was involved in the
arms procurement scam in the office of the NSA.
Another source last night said Dasuki gave
N135m to Jafaru Isa in 2013 to buy a house for
him in Kano.
The source who told our correspondent on phone
said the money was given to Jafaru Isa in
piecemeal ranging from N30m to N20m.
“You know Jafaru Isa and Dasuki have been
together since their days at the Nigerian Defence
Academy (NDA), Kaduna. So, when Dasuki
wanted to buy a house in Kano, he approached
Isa.
“Isa got a house for him and he was sending the
money piecemeal to him through his account.
The transaction was not possible because of the
way Dasuki was sending the money,” he said.
“It was while they were investigating the Arms
scam that they saw the transaction. But frankly
speaking, it has no connection with it. It
happened between 2013 and 2014,” he said.
He said the former Governor of Kaduna State has
since been released on bail by the EFCC.
Dasuki himself is on trial in three different courts
over alleged fraud in the disbursement of $2.1
billion arms money.
The money is meant for the purchase of military
weapons for the counter insurgency war in the
north-east.
The federal government had accused Dasuki of
extra budgetary spending of about N643 billion
from the arms fund.
The EFCC had traced part of the money to the
bank accounts of associates of the former NSA
and their companies. Some of them have already
been put on trial.
Meanwhile, it was gathered that the EFCC is
making moves to get a court injunction to keep
the spokesman of the PDP Olisah Metuh in
custody to allow for further investigation.
Metuh was arrested by the EFCC over 24 hours
ago and is still being held to explain his
connection to over N1 billion allegedly traced to a
company account he has interests in.