The Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission has arrested a serving senior officer of the Nigerian Air
Force in connection with the $2.1bn arms purchase scandal.
It was learnt that the officer, Air Vice
Marshal R.A. Ojuawo, was arrested by operatives of the EFCC at the
Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on his way out of the
country.
A top source, who spoke to our
correspondent on condition of anonymity on Tuesday, said Ojuawo was
arrested while accompanying the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Gabriel
Olonisakin, to a meeting of the United States Africa Command in Germany
on Sunday.
According to Wikipedia, the
United States Africa Command, otherwise known as AFRICOM, is one of the
nine unified combatant commands of the US Armed Forces, headquartered at
Kelley Barracks, Stuttgart, Germany.