Nigeria’s Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has declared former Nigerian Minister of Power and Steel, Dr. Olu Agunloye wanted over alleged corruption and forgery.
EFCC shared a public notice declaring Mr Agunloye wanted on its Facebook and Instagram pages on Tuesday.
“The public is hereby notified that Olu Agunloye, whose photograph appears above, is wanted by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in an alleged case of corruption and forgery,” the public notice read in part.
According to the commission, Mr Agunloye is aged 75 and is from Akoko North Local Government Area, Ondo State.
It also gave his last known address as No 20 Sold Boneh Way, Bodija, Ibadan, Oyo State.
It urged anyone “With useful information as to his whereabouts” to contact its offices in Benin, Kaduna, Ibadan, Sokoto, Maiduguri, Makurdi, Ilorin, Enugu, Kane, Lagos, Gombe, Uyo, Port Harcourt and Abuja offices as well through its telephone lines and email.
EFCC had earlier invited Agunloye for questioning over his role in the $6 billion Mambila hydropower contract, but he declined their invitation.
Chief Obasanjo had earlier accused Agunloye of mismanaging the power project and challenged Agunloye to inform Nigerians how he got approval without the Federal Executive Council (FEC) to award a $6 billion contract to Sunrise Power and Transmission Ltd. in respect of the project in 2003.
Reacting to the claims, Agunloye stated that the nature of the initial contract for the Mambilla Power Project was awarded as a build-operate-and-transfer contract in May 2003 under his watch.
He also claimed that the government was not mandated to pay a kobo to Sunrise under the build, operate, and transfer (BOT) agreement as it was to be fully funded by the newly registered company, whose declared assets were worth less than $2,000 at the time.
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