The
Nigerian Airforce High Command stepped up its anti-corruption war, yesterday,
with the removal of officers, including Air Officers Commanding, AOCs, fingered
in the $2.1billion arms scandal and appointed new officers to replace them.
As a result, Vanguard gathered that about four senior officers,
Air Vice Marshals, AVMs, and Commodores, (names with-held) are now under house
arrest at Niger Barracks, Abuja, awaiting completion of interrogation by the
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, before they would know their
fate. That is besides RA Ojuawo, an Air Vice Marshal, arrested Tuesday at the
Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport on his way to Germany, by EFCC operatives.
It was also gathered that a former service chief, who was
allowed to go home the first time he was invited, had been detained since
Wednesday when he was re-invited and may be detained for up to two more weeks,
following approval by the courts for his continued detention.
This development came on a day more military personnel fingered
in the disbursement of the $2.1bn arms money were arrested and questioned by
the Military high command, even as the Director of Military Intelligence,
Brig-General Mohammed Sa’ad, was sacked over alleged connection with the arms scam.