The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission will on Monday, arraign the immediate past Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita.
She will be arraigned before Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, sitting in Abuja, over a N3 billion graft.
The ex-Head of Service was sacked in September last year after about N600 million was allegedly found in the bank account of her aide.
Consecutive investigations by the EFCC reportedly revealed that about N3bn kickbacks on contracts, illegal estacodes and duty tour allowance received from the government, were traced to Oyo-ita.
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She would be arraigned alongside her special assistant, Ubong Effiok; Frontline Ace Global Services Limited; Asanaya Projects Ltd.; Garba Umar and his companies, Slopes International Ltd.; Gooddeal Investments Ltd.
Other defendants include U & U Global Services Ltd., belonging to Effiok and Prince Mega Logistics Ltd.
A statement in Abuja on Sunday, by the acting EFCC spokesman, Tony Orilade, said they would be arraigned for fraud in relation to DTA, estacodes, conference fees fraud and receiving kickbacks on contracts.
It said, “During investigation, it was discovered that Oyo-Ita, in her roles in the civil service as Director, Permanent Secretary and Head of Service, used her companies as well as Effiok and Umar’s companies as fronts to receive kickbacks from contractors of various ministries and parastatals where she worked.
The former head of service in collusion with Effiok who was her Special Assistant, along with one Titus Tomsin, made bogus claims of fictitious DTA, estacodes, conference fees which were paid by the government to the accounts of the suspects.”
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