Abacha loot latest: Foreign currencies disappear - Muhammed Abacha quizzed, Commissioner of Police in trouble

Lanre Adewole, Abuja - 01.02.2008

ANOTHER dimension has crept into the fresh police discovery into the infamous Abacha loot, with the sudden disappearance of numerous Ghana-Must-Go bags loaded with hard currencies in a pent house in Kano.

Sunday Tribune, our sister newspaper, had exclusively reported the fresh discovery of a house loaded with foreign currencies in the state, allegedly traced to the family of the late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, who was said to have looted the public treasury.

Following the arrest of a prime suspect in Kogi State, the police had put the house under surveillance, only for the stored foreign currencies, according to sources very close to the case, to have taken wings.

The disappearance of the loot is reportedly causing disquiet in the top echelon of the police, with a Commissioner of Police in a North Central state and another retired Assistant Commissioner of Police said to be in trouble already.

The house, where the loot was reportedly kept, according to sources, is located at No F1, Sani Abacha Way, Kano.

It is said to be an eight-storey building, with the missing loot reportedly kept in a vault on the eighth floor.

The scion of the Abacha family is said to have been a regular caller at wee hours to the house, though he had reportedly exonerated his family during his interrogation at the police headquarters in Abuja.

Another suspect, who hails from Kogi State, who was a security guard in the house, is also said to have been picked up by the police, while the prime suspect who released the first seizure of over N30 million to the police is said to have been released on bail.

The prime suspect, during interrogation, was said to have confessed to laundering the money for the Abachas, while he was said to have also indicted many senior police officers who he reportedly accused of extorting several millions of naira from him in order to get him off the hook.