Nigeria: Sokoto Officials Arrested for Diverting Workers' Salaries - EFCC

15 September 2019

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Sokoto Zonal Office, says it has arrested Abdullahi Sa'idu, the Director-General of Sokoto Marshall Agency, over alleged diversion of workers salaries to the tune of N10 million.

A statement issued by EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, made available to newsmen by the commission's Sokoto Zonal Office, on Saturday in Sokoto, said that the director-general was arrested alongside the agency's accountant, Bashar Dodo-Iya, on September 13.

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