The Economic and Financial Crime Commission
(EFCC) has arrested the immediate past Chief of
Air Staff, Adesola Amosu. Operatives of the anti-
graft agency arrested Amosu yesterday night at
about 9pm and has kept him in their custody
since then.
The former Air Force chief is among the senior
military officers President Buhari recently ordered
the EFCC to investigate in the ongoing $2.1 billion
arms deal scandal. A source in EFCC say Amosu
is being investigated for reportedly authorizing the
purchase of two helicopters without functional
rotors in which he later compelled two air force
officers to fly in one of the helicopters after the
craft was equipped with a rotor that was taken
from an unserviceable Russian-made helicopter
gunship.
The air force officers died in a crash near Yola,
the capital of Adamawa State because the rotors
fitted on their chopper was too heavy.
The Nigeria Air Force personnel is also being
investigated in a $2.1 billion arms deal scandal
and another N29 billion procurement deals that
took place between 2014 and 2015.
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