Aminu Lamido and Mustapha Lamido, sons of Jigawa State governor, Alhaji Sule
Lamido were arrested yesterday, November 14, 2013 by the Economic and Financial
Crimes Commission, EFCC. Dependable sources say they were picked up by
operatives of the Commission between 10 and 11.55pm in Kano and have been moved
to Abuja, the Commission’s headquarters, where a crack team of investigators
will grill them.
Their arrest, according to a knowledgeable source, is in
furtherance of the investigation that commenced in December 2012 when Aminu Sule
Lamido was arrested at the Mallam Aminu Kano Airport en route Cairo, Egypt for
failure to declare the $50,000 he had on him.
Though Aminu has since been
prosecuted and convicted by a Federal High Court in Kano, investigation as to
how he came by the money has led investigations to uncover a web of money
laundering in which billions of naira from Jigawa state government accounts are
funnelled into the accounts of companies run by the Jigawa state governor and
his two sons.
Over N10billion is said to have been transferred from
Jigawa state government accounts into the accounts in which Sule Lamido and his
two sons have interest from 2007 till date.
The Commission is said to
have traced these transfers to 10 companies where Lamido and sons are directors
and signatories to the account.
The companies include Bamaina Alluminium
Limited, Bamaina Holdings Limited, Bamaina Company Nigeria Limited, Rawda
Integrated Services Limited, Speeds International Limited and Saby Integrated
Nigeria Limited.
The account of these companies received huge cash inflow
between 2007 and 2013, a period that coincide with the tenure of Sule Lamido as
governor of Jigawa state. For instance in Bamaina Aluminium where Sule Lamido
and his two sons are directors, investigations revealed that the company’s
account controlled by Mustapha as signatory received total credit of
N1.52billion between January 2010 and August 2013. It recorded a total debit of
the same amount, with Mustapha and other companies in which Lamido and his sons
are directors, being the beneficiaries.
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