The erstwhile military administrator of Akwa Ibom State and chieftain of the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, Idongesit Nkanga has been arrested by the Economic and
Mr. Nkanga, a retired air commodore, is accused of receiving N450,000,000(Four
Hundred and Fifty Million Naira only) from the sleazy $115million deposited by former
Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke, with Fidelity Bank Plc.
Premium Times reports that the former governor was picked in Port Harcourt, the Rivers
State capital on Monday.
The former military boss reportedly collected the money in two tranches, from a certain
Saint-Anthony Ejiowu, a staff of Fidelity Bank in Uyo, the Akwa Ibom State capital.
The first tranche of the money – N350,000,000 (Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand
Million Naira only) was paid to the politician on March 27, 2015, the source said.
Mr. Nkanga allegedly received the second tranche of N100,000,000 (One Hundred
Million Naira only) on March 31, 2015.
“He is in the custody of the EFCC and would be charged to court soon,” an EFCC
official said.
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