Yar'Adua Orders Recall of Defence Attache to India

Abuja: President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua has made good his government's declared commitment to ensuring greater probity and transparency in the management of public funds by ordering the Ministries of Defence and Foreign Affairs to effect the immediate recall of Nigeira's Defence Adviser in India, Navy Captain GA Ojedokun.
Captain Ojedokun was last month found with about $2.7 million cash at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi. But it was later released to him following diplomatic presentations by Nigeria's High Commission in India and the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Press Release from the office of the Special Adviser to the President (Communications) and signed by Mr OJ Abuah reads: In furtherance of his declared commitment to ensuring greater probity and transparency in the management of public funds, President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua Tuesday directed the Acting Inspector-General of Police, Mr. Mike Okiro to undertake a thorough investigation into the reported apprehension of a police officer with millions of Naira at Police Headquarters, Abuja.
'President Yar'Adua further directed that a detailed report on the incident be forwarded to him at the conclusion of the investigation for further action. 'In a similar vein, the President has also ordered the Ministries of Defence and Foreign Affairs to effect the immediate recall of Navy Captain GA Ojedokun, Nigeria's Defence Adviser in India from whom a large sum of United States Dollars was recently seized at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi.
13/06/07 Josephine Lohor/This Day, Nigeria

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