Former Group Managing Director of NNPC, Andrew Yakubu has finally opened up on the $9.8million and £74,000 recovered from his house by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) operatives recently. He went to EFCC’s Zonal office in Kano and confessed that the huge amount of money belongs to him but claimed it was a gift from people.

For those who don’t know, operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on 3rd February, 2017 stormed a building belonging to him at Sabon Tasha area of Kaduna and recovered a staggering sum of $9,772,800 (Nine Million, Seven Hundred and Seven Two Thousand, Eight Hundred United States Dollars) and another sum of £74,000 (Seventy Four Thousand Pound Sterling) cash.

His younger brother, Bitrus Yakubu who lives at the house disclosed that both the house and the safe where the money was found belong to his brother, Andrew Yakubu.