The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has allegedly discovered the sum of $9 million at the residence of Brig.-Gen. Paul Tarela Boroh (rtd), the sacked Special Adviser on Niger Delta to President Muhammadu Buhari and Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme.
Boroh was arrested on Monday. The discovery of the cash was made a few hours after his arrest by a combined team of EFCC and the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) operatives.
The discovery of $9 million at Boroh’s house is coming barely a year when $44.3 million found in the apartment at Osborne Towers, Ikoyi allegedly belong to the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) director general, Ambassador Ayodele Oke.
President Buhari sacked Boroh after receiving a petition against him. In the petition to Buhari dated August 21, 2017 and signed by one Timi Angalabiri, on behalf of the Niger Deltans for Accountability and Good Governance (NDAGG), the group had requested the president to suspend the ex-Amnesty Programme boss “for a credible investigative inquiry to commence into the non-payment of tuition fees and living expenses of recently graduated Niger Delta students in universities across the United States, the United Kingdom and Nigeria, with many institutions withholding the students’ certificates due to the non-payment of tuition fees ranging from nine months to two years, despite receiving over N70 billion within this time frame”.
The petitioner further pleaded with Buhari to use his good office to prosecute Boroh and others for allegedly diverting the sum of N70 billion.
