EFCC declares Emefiele’s wife, others wanted for committing financial crimes
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has declared Margaret Emefiele, wife of a former Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, and three others, wanted for money laundering.
Margret is said to be the chief executive officer, Dummies Oil and Gas Limited, with her last known address as Iru Close, Ikoyi.
Equally wanted by the EFCC are Eric Odoh, Anita Omoile and her husband, Jonathan Omoile.
The anti-graft agency says the four persons converted “huge sums of money belonging to the Federal Government of Nigeria” to their personal use.
In a specific charge, Emefiele, while being the governor of the Apex bank, wrote a memo to himself, which he purported was from the secretary to the federal government, requesting for “$6,230,000.00.”
He had said in the memo that the money was for “a contingent logistic advance in the sum of $6,230,000.00, in line with Mr. President’s directive.”
In the order charges filed against him in the court, Emefiele reportedly awarded contracts to his wife, and brother-in-law , the said Omoile Macombo.
The contract was for renovating a portion of the CBN Governor’s residence in Lagos, at a cost of N99.8m.
The EFCC is encouraging anyone who comes across the suspects or know their whereabouts to give a report to the body or the nearest police station.
