A high-powered special team put together to unravel the mystery
behind alleged involvement of the President of Christian Association of
Nigeria (CAN), Pasto Ayo Oritsejafor and Alhaji Asari Dokubo in the
botched $9.3 million arms deal in South Africa has cleared both men of
any complicity in the matter.
A private aircraft belonging to Oritsejafor last month conveyed some
unnamed persons and the cash to South Africa ostensibly to purchase arms
from the black market to help bolster Nigeria’s fight against
terrorists in parts of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states.
Three individuals on board the aircraft were subsequently briefly
detained in South Africa while that country’s authorities confiscated
the cash.
Weeks later, there were also insinuations that Niger Delta activist, Dokubo Asari, was one of those who flew in the plane.
However, authoritative sources had hinted that the secret panel
cleared the CAN president, while also dismissing allegations that Dokubo
was on the flight.
“A special team, comprising security agents, intelligence experts and
officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has investigated the $9.3
million cash-for-arms deal and submitted its report to the Presidency.”
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