A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Brig.Gen. Jafaru Isa (rtd) and a former military governor of Kaduna State has returned N70m to the Feder
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Brig.Gen. Jafaru Isa (rtd) and a former military governor of Kaduna State has returned N70m to the Federal Government, being money from the $2 billion arms money illegally received from the embattled former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki (rtd).
Isa who is also a close friend of President Muhammadu Buhari, had initially been detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission but was released after returning N100m to the commission with a promise to pay the balance of N70m which he has done. It however remains unclear if the EFCC will still prosecute Isa, who is believed to have health challenges even though the EFCC chairman, Ibrahim Magu, had earlier said that he will be prosecuted.
The former military governor had launched a failed bid to become the governor of Bauchi State in 2011 on the platform of the Congress for Progressives Change, the party on whose platform Buhari equally made his third attempt to rule the country as a civilian governor. Buhari lost the 2011 election to the then incumbent, Goodluck Jonathan, but defeated Jonathan in the presidential poll of the 2015 general elections.
The retired general, who was a member of Buhari’s 19-man transition committee, was arrested around the same time the then National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Olisa Metuh, was detained for allegedly receiving N400m from Dasuki. However, while Jafaru was released after five days in detention, Metuh spent about three weeks in the custody of the commission, causing the PDP to accuse the anti-graft agency of being partial.
