EFCC Staff absconds with “over 30,000 dollars” stolen from exhibit room in Kaduna

A staff of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, is currently on the run after allegedly stealing over $30,000 and other valuable assets from the exhibits room in Kaduna zonal office.

Earlier in January, the anti-corruption agency said it had detained 10 officers in Lagos over theft of operational items they could not account for.

While the commission did not disclose the specific items stolen by the officials, a source told DAILYNIGERIAN that the detained officers stole gold bars worth over N1billion as well as over $180,000 and about GBP 140,000.

In the latest scandal, the newspaper exclusively gathered that a member of staff of the commission, simply identified as Polycarp, absconded when he failed to account for “over $30,000”.

An Insider source who told the newspaper that the zonal director, Benedict Ubi, a couple of weeks ago ordered for an audit of the directorate’s exhibit room, following the internal heist that occurred in Lagos.

According to the sources, when Mr Polycarp received the directive that the exhibit room would be audited, he took an excuse to ease himself and fled.

“Immediately after the order for the audit was given, he took an excuse to ease himself. Efforts were made to contact him but all his telephone lines were switched off.

“This is only what the preliminary audit on foreign currency shows. There are chances that more could be uncovered after a thorough audit of the exhibit room,” said a source familiar with the development.

DAILYNIGERIAN newspaper reports that the commission had launched a manhunt to trace the fleeing officer’s whereabouts.