By KELECHI OGUNLEYE

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has dismissed a report on allegations that its personnel were involved in a two billion Naira financial trace.

NSCDC Mining Marshals, Commander, Johnson Onoja, denied the report during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, on Monday in Abuja,.

Onoja said that the statement of account alleged to have been used for a transaction of over N2bn, has within the last one year, showed a total credit of N760,129 and a debit of N760,457.

He expressed displeasure over the report, stating that it was false, malicious and of negative intentions by the publishers of the said report.

He said that investigations and bank account balance of the person said to have been in possession of over N2bn, showed that the current balance of the suspect amounted to almost zero naira.

According to him, the bank account number of the said personnel showed a credit and debit of less than N800,000 in the last one year.

“Everything you saw in the publication is completely false and they also claimed that I refused to release the phone which has been marked as an exhibit in a homicide case.

“I was surprised to see the publication that the family of the deceased filed the petition after I had held meetings with them severally and discussed extensively,” Onoja said.

The commander said that the case is currently being handled by the appropriate authorities.(NAN)

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