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The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arrested the Director General of the Nigerian Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Emeka Mba over an alleged N15 billion fraud, Premium Times reports.
Mr. Mba was arrested on Monday morning in Abuja and taken to the EFCC’s headquarters where he is currently being interrogated.
It was learnt that the anti-graft body had been investigating the NBC in the past one month.
Sources told the online medium that EFCC had stormed the office of the NBC last week and extracted confessional statements from workers which implicated Mr. Mba and some top officials of the NBC.
EFCC spokesperson, Wilson Uwujaren, is yet to confirm the arrest but a top EFCC official said Mba was in the commission’s custody.