A principal suspect in the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff
Association, PENGASSAN, N559.5 million housing fraud (names withheld),
has jumped bail and gone into hiding as operatives of the fraud unit,
Panti, Lagos, intensify investigation into the scam.
Vanguard had earlier in the month, exclusively reported the
scam that has put the umbrella body for senior staff in the nation’s
petroleum industry in disarray.
Sources said his surety had been arrested by the operatives and was
now helping to track down the suspect, a senior account staff of
PENGASSAN.
According to Vanguard’s investigation, the account staff,
who was suspended for six months by the union in November 2015,
alongside a senior staff to pave way for unhindered investigation of the
fraud, was granted bail in November after he had made a statement and
promised to report back whenever he was needed.
It was gathered that he was initially communicated with the
operatives through the phone, but when he was asked to report back for
further questioning about two weeks ago, he did not and had since been
on the ran.
Vanguard sources said the operatives have been deployed to
different locations in Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, and other neighbouring states
to apprehend the fleeing suspect.
It would be recalled that Vanguard had on Thursday, January 7, broke news of the over N559,308,790 housing project scam rocking PENGASSAN.
The said amount is alleged to be unaccounted for after an internal
investigation of PENGASSAN Housing Project between 2009 and 2015.
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