Disgraced DSS boss Lwan Daura
The sacked Director General of the Department of State Services (DSS), Lawal Daura, is set to be interrogated by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over an alleged N17bn scam.
EFCC sources said operatives of the anti-graft agency on Tuesday evening visited the police facility at Guzape Abuja where Daura was being held preparatory to receiving him.
“It is expected that the former DSS boss will be handed [to the EFCC] over by the police for further interrogation to explain how the N17 billion traced to the headquarters of the DSS was utilized,” an EFCC source told Daily Trust on Wednesday.
It was further learnt that the money was left behind by the Daura’s predecessor Ita Ekpeyong.
It was also alleged that Ekpeyong converted N17 billion into United States of America (USA) dollars, which he left behind when he handed over to Daura.
The funds were reportedly traced by EFCC investigators as a fall out of discoveries after the $43 million linked to the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) was found stashed at a private apartment inside Osborne Towers in Ikoyi, Lagos.
EFCC sources said operatives of the commission had been working on the investigation report that indicted the management of the DSS, but that the investigation was frustrated by Daura.