See the Pics of the Faan Official Caught with 288M

AN official of the Directorate of Aviation Security (AVSEC) of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN), Akin Adetula, has been nabbed for attempting to smuggle N288 million ($1.8 million) through the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos on Saturday evening.

The suspect was said to have been arrested about 3:45p.m. while attempting to smuggle the money through a Middle East-bound airline.

It was learnt that the AVSEC personnel was neither on duty nor on official assignment at the time of his arrest by security personnel at the Customs Currency Declaration Desk who handed him over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for further investigations to know how he came about such a huge amount of money.

Confirming the story, General Manager, Corporate Communications at FAAN, Yukubu Dati, said: “The Authority wishes to commend the joint efforts of the EFCC, Customs, Police and other security personnel, who aided his arrest, and to assure them of its unalloyed assistance in unraveling this financial crime, particularly as the staff was acting on his own accord.

“We wish to also assure the public that FAAN is committed to restructuring the organisation to purge it of all dishonourable characters as it transforms into a modern and efficient entity