From Fugitive To Captive: EFCC Reveals How Saleh Mamman Was Hunted Down In Kaduna

Fresh details have emerged on how operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission tracked down and arrested former Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman.....KINDLY READ THE FULL STORY HERE▶

Sources within the anti-graft agency told Punch that the search for Mamman intensified after the Federal High Court in Abuja sentenced him in absentia to 75 years imprisonment last week.

According to the sources, investigators eventually traced the former minister through his mobile phone and located him in an apartment in the Rigasa area of Kaduna State.

The commission also arrested two individuals accused of sheltering the former minister while he was allegedly evading arrest.

One of the sources said, “Immediately the judgment was delivered, we spread our dragnet in search of him following weeks of intensive surveillance and intelligence gathering, but we eventually tracked him with his phone and found him in an apartment in the Rigasa area of Kaduna. Two people who harboured him have also been arrested.”

The EFCC had earlier confirmed Mamman’s arrest during a press briefing held in Abuja on Tuesday.

Chairman of the commission, Ola Olukoyede, disclosed that the former minister was apprehended at about 3:30 a.m. in Kaduna.

Olukoyede described the arrest as proof of the Federal Government’s determination to fight corruption and enforce court judgments.

“About 14 to 15 months down the line, we secured a conviction on all 12 counts. But because the main defendant was not present, sentencing was shifted.

“On the 13th of this month, he was sentenced in absentia here. Since then, we have decided to activate our intelligence and surveillance operations, and we have been searching for him all over the place.

“I am happy to announce to Nigerians that at about 3:30 a.m. this morning, we arrested him somewhere in Kaduna,” he said.