The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission,
EFCC, has detained a former Governor of Borno State, Modu Sheriff, over
allegations of corruption.
Mr. Sheriff is said to have voluntarily handed
himself in Wednesday afternoon.
The spokesperson for the EFCC, Wilson
Uwujaren, confirmed that Mr. Sheriff was currently being held by the
commission.
PREMIUM TIMES reported how the anti-graft
agency had on April 23, moved to declare Mr. Sheriff wanted when he failed to
honour its invitations for questioning.
The former governor, was who summoned by the
commission to appear, damned the invitation and stayed away.
Although the specific allegations against the
former governor are unclear at this time, sources said the investigation is
related to allegations that parts of the N300billion his administration
received from the Federation Account between 2003 and 2011 were not judiciously
spent.
The investigation began in 2012 and had been
ongoing ever since, a source said.
Mr. Sheriff governed Borno State on the
platform of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party.
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