Following the $9,772,800 and £74,000 cash recovered from former Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, Dr. Andrew Yakubu, in Kaduna, the Senate, yesterday, asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to go after the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN.
It also asked the anti- graft agency to beam its searchlight on serving directors, permanent secretaries, procurement officials, and others in Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs, to get those found wanting and bring them to book, noting that the monumental stealing of government monies by officials had been partly responsible for the current recession bedevilling the country.
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