By Chibuzo Ihegboro
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) has charged former Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika, his brother, Ahmad Abubakar Sirika, and his company, with N19.4bn fraud.
The sum is said to be for several aviation ministry contracts from the former minister to Enginos Nigeria Limited, owned by Sirika’s younger brother, Abubakar.
The former minister, brothers alongside the company, Enginos Nigeria Limited will be arraigned before Justice Belgore of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Garki, Abuja today (Tuesday).
It is the second criminal charge the EFCC will be filing against the ex-aviation minister.
On Thursday, May 9, he was arraigned for N2.7bn fraud before the High Court of the Federal Capital Territory in Abuja on six counts alongside his daughter, Fatimah, brother-in-law, Jalal Hamma, and Al-Buraq Investment Ltd.
The defendants pleaded not guilty while Justice Sylvanus Oriji granted them N100m bail each, with the condition that they must not travel out of the country until the end of the criminal case.