The Nigeria army has placed Major General Hakeem Otiki under house arrest and close surveillance, Igbere TV has learnt.
Igbere TV reports that Maj. Gen. Otiki is the military officer whose N400 was reportedly carted away by some escort soldiers.
He was the General Officer Commanding (GOC), 8 Division, Sokoto, until his redeployment to the Administrative Staff College of Nigeria, ASCON.
Military sources told Igbere TV that the Maj. Gen. is being held in the Officers Mess until he can be moved to Abuja for questioning over how he made N400 million.
It was gathered that men of the Directorate of Military Intelligence (DMI), Special Intelligence Bureau (SIB), and Nigerian Army Corps of Military Police (NACMP), have been arranged for his special interrogation in Abuja.
He is reportedly being guarded by heavily armed soldiers who are carefully screening his visitors.
Igbere TV recalls that Maj. Gen. Otiki was said to have instructed five soldiers to transport huge sums of money on July 11.
The soldiers – two corporals and three lance corporals – moved the money from Sokoto to the Nigeria Army airstrip in Jaji, Kaduna State.
Although instructed to load the money into a military jet for transport to Abuja, the soldiers failed to do so but instead shared it among themselves and disappeared.
The soldiers reportedly dropped their rifles, uniforms and other accouterments, and mobile phones before vanishing into thin air with the money.
However, controversy continue to trail the source of the stolen fund.
While some say the money may have been gotten from proceeds of illegal bunkering, others say the money was meant to pay troops allowances who have have not been paid in the last two months.
