Hajj Subsidy: NAHCON Chairman in EFCC Net<\/p>\n
Zainab Tanimu<\/p>\n
Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria<\/p>\n
The EFCC said its investigation revealed that from the N90bn Hajj subsidy, Arabi, fraudulently overpaid himself and others the necessary operational cost.<\/p>\n
According to the document, the approved 2024 Hajj operational cost for the Chairman\/CEO Commissioners, Secretary and Directors\/Chief of Staff in the 2024 budget are stipulated as $4,250,\u00a0 $12,750, $3,825 and $15,300, respectively.<\/p>\n
The EFCC, however, alleged that instead of the above approved payment, \u201cThe chairman fraudulently overpaid himself, the commissioners, secretary and directors for the 2024 hajj operational cost.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe chairman was entitled to SR15,929 but he got SR50,000; three commissioners who were meant to get SR 15,929 each received SR 40,000 each. The secretary got SR 30,000 instead of SR14,336. Directors\/Chief of Staff received SR 30,000 instead of the SR2,550 they were entitled to.<\/p>\n
The anti-graft agency had first grilled Arabi for hours on July 29 and released him on bail.<\/p>\n
According to report, a total of SR314,098 was recovered,\u201d from the NAHCON chairman and other ranking officials.<\/p>\n
It will be recalled that President Tinubu had approved the sum of N90 billion to the commission as subsidy for 2024 pilgrims.<\/p>\n
The arrests were sequel to some top officials of hajj commission’s request for questioning over alleged mismanagement of the funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hajj Subsidy: NAHCON Chairman in EFCC Net Zainab Tanimu Kaduna, Northwest Nigeria The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has detained the Chairman, National Hajj Commission of Nigeria, (NAHCON) Jalal Arabi and his Secretary, Abdullahi Kotongora over Hajj Subsidy fraud. The EFCC said its investigation revealed that from the N90bn Hajj subsidy, Arabi, fraudulently overpaid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/lifestyle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}