Trying To Escape? EFCC Arrests Military Chief At The Airport

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has
arrested a serving senior officer of the Air Force in
connection with the $2.1billionn 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 told Punch that Ojuawo was arrested while
accompanying the Chief of Defence Staff, General Gabriel
Olonisakin, to a meeting of the United States Africa
Command in Germany on Sunday.
The source said, “The event, which they were going to
attend, was about the activities of the military in the fight
against insurgency. AVM Ojuawo was the one that was
supposed to deliver the keynote address on behalf of the
Nigerian Air Force.
“However, a team of EFCC detectives stormed the airport
and refused to allow him travel. All the senior military
officers present pleaded with the detectives but they
refused to listen. We explained to them that we had
invested a lot of time and energy in putting together the
report that Ojuawo was supposed to present.
“The Air Force had done feasibility studies on how to
rehabilitate Internally Displaced Persons and was going to
present the report in Germany.
“We promised them that immediately we were done with the
event, Ojuawo would return and visit the EFCC but the
detectives said he was a flight risk. How could he flee when
he was in the entourage of the CDS?”
A source in the NAF said Ojuawo was the Director of
Operations when Badeh was the Chief of Air Staff.