Alleged fraud: Why is Aisha Achimugu running for EFCC?

According to PREMIUM TIMES, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has obtained an arrest warrant against businesswoman Aisha Achimugu, preparatory to declaring her wanted for alleged money laundering and investment scam.

Aisha Achimugu, an astute industrialist, is the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, FELAK CONCEPT GROUP; a technical and professional consortium consisting of about 8 active companies in various sectors and industries such as Engineering, Maritime, Oil and Gas, ICT Learning and Development, and various other leading sectors, is believed to have fled Nigeria after she was billed to meet with EFCC interrogators on 5 March.

In the PREMIUM TIMES report, investigators discovered that she escaped from Nigeria sometimes between Thursday 6 and Friday 7 March.

Top-level anti-graft officials, who asked not to be named because they were not authorised to discuss the matter with the media, revealed the development to this newspaper.

The EFCC obtained a warrant of arrest from court following the socialite’s failure to honour the commission’s invitation on 5 March.

“Achimugu would soon be declared wanted by the commission,” an EFCC source said, adding that her escape from the country was a betrayal of the benefit of doubt extended to her that she would honour the agency’s invitation earlier in the month.

Meanwhile, last week, David Abakpa, who identified himself as Ms Achimugu’s aide, launched a media campaign to preempt her arrest by the EFCC.

Mr Abakpa, in a widely circulated statement, stated that he was responding to speculations on social media and on two blogs that Ms Achimugu was arrested by the EFCC.

The statement confirmed that Ms Achimugu had left the country, insisting that his boss’s arrest was the handiwork of unscrupulous elements.

He further urged the public to disregard the “fake news,” adding that “Mrs Achimugu is not in the country and so could not have been arrested by the EFCC.”

“It is a lie sponsored by enemies! Aisha Achimugu is never arrested or detained by the EFCC. Anyone can confirm from the commission,” Mr Abakpa added in the statement.

Meanwhile, a coalition of civil society groups, under the Public Accountability Watch (PAW), has dismissed claims that renowned Socialite and Entrepreneur Aisha Achimugu is wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) as spurious and the work of detractors.

Nigerians and her followers are eager to know why she fled the country amid the EFCC probe for alleged fraud as reported by the PREMIUM TIMES.