Former President Olusegun Obasanjo library, has been fingered in a money laundry investigation by the Economic and Financial Crimes (EFCC).
According to reports, detectives from the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, fingered allies of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and went to the library on August 8, 2019 to authenticate the claims by one of those under probe that he gave $140,000 (about N50 million) to one of the library officials.
The anti-graft agency operatives, ransacked some offices at the former President’s Library.
It could not be confirmed whether any document was taken away by the operatives, but nobody was arrested.
“Our operatives went to the library with some riot policemen in anticipation of a possible resistance. But there was none. We did our job lawfully without any inhibition. We are still investigating the case. We are screening some documents in our possession on the matter, ” an EFCC investigator told The Nation.
The Olusegun Obasanjo Presidential Library was opened on March 4, 2017.
