Amnesty Programme: EFCC speaks on ‘discovery of $9 million’ at Paul Boroh’s residence

The spokesperson for the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has reacted to a THISDAY newspaper report that narrated how anti-graft operatives allegedly recovered $9 million dollar after a search at the home of Paul Boroh, the recently sacked head of Presidential Amnesty Programme.

“I am not aware of such discoveries,” Wilson Uwujaren told PREMIUM TIMES by telephone Wednesday morning.

The newspaper said in its Wednesday edition that detectives from the EFCC and the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA) raided the home of the former head of Presidential Amnesty Programme on Tuesday morning in Abuja.

It said Mr. Boroh, a retired brigadier-general, was arrested on Monday and investigators took him to his residence in Gwarimpa Estate around 3:00 a.m. on Tuesday to comb his apartment for items that could aid their investigation.

A week earlier, President Muhammadu Buhari sacked Mr. Boroh from office over corruption allegations and other malfeasance, marking an inglorious end to his three-year reign at a department created to address Niger-Delta grievances but which has been dogged by mismanagement since inception.

The president named Charles Dokubo, a foreign policy expert, as Mr. Boroh’s replacement with immediate effect.

THISDAY said detectives also sifted through the property of Mr. Boroh’s wife, Ibinye, during the search, adding that the $9 million recovered had been handed over to ONSA.

But the EFCC spokesperson said he could only confirm that a raid was carried out, but had no details of how much was recovered.

Similarly, Mrs. Boroh and Olusola Oke, the family’s lawyer, denied the allegations at a press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday afternoon.